Saturday, March 28, 2020

Puffing Puffins Tour Day 9 Mull: Craignure to Barra: Scurrival via Oban Sunday 16th June 2019

Day 9

 Today: 19 km 170m Ferries: 2

 Tour to date: 544km 6004m Ferries: 9 Islands: 5
North Barra

Today was mainly travel, of the motorised version. We packed up a soggy otter's tent and wet clothes in Craignure and caught the 9.30 ferry back to Oban. 

 Although I will now do anything to avoid Spoons, on principle, I made an exception. Our first call was proper breakfast in Spoons, on our last trip we were fuelled every day by a hearty breakfast as we were staying in B&Bs mainly. Camping breakfasts are somewhat disappointing in comparison!
Steve's best breakfast of the holiday
We then headed off to Lidl for an exciting food shop, it's Sunday so it has to be a big metropolis for a food shop to be open. Nothing will be open on Barra later as we dock at 6pm. We then head over to a generic chain outdoor shop and snag a 66% reduced long sleeve merino base layer each, we’ve been so hypothermic at night. Subsidiary purchases were a gas canister and two new sporks as we broke one, but sporks are BOGOF. Every gram has to earn a place in touring luggage.
As it says on the sign in Oban
We queue an hour before our 13.30 ferry for Castlebay, after buying a dressed crab at my favourite Oban haunt, The Seafood Shack on the pier, for my lunch. Award winning CalMac stodge avoidance strategy.
Queuing for Oban-Casltlebay Cal Mac ferry
Outer Hebrides: Vatersay and Barra
It’s always stunning weather on a two ferry "re-positioning" day. We had the best day weather wise on this ferry on Tour d'Ecosse in 2016 too. We even got the wet lycra surreptitiously dry on the overheated boat.
Castlebay Barra
There is nowhere quite like Barra, except perhaps Norway.
Castlebay Barra


Kisimul Castle, Castlebay Harbour Barra Outer Hebrides Scotland
Near Scurrival Campsite Barra
It was a stunning evening ride up the west coast of Barra, past the airport on the beach, and on to the delightful Scurrival Campsite on the north coast of the island. Lovely welcoming owner "pitch where you want, pay when you want, hope you don't want nightlife, beach is over there" Magical. A cottage housed the shower rooms and full cooking kitchen and dining table for bad/midgy weather. We didn't need to use that tonight!

Camping Scurrival Barra Outer Hebrides Scotland
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