Sunday
10th July
The
fates are with me!
The
weather forecast, thanks BBC, states that Sunday in Oban would be a
day of heavy rain. The day starts that way and I take the tent down
as it pours. I decide to see whether there is a bed available at
Oban's youth hostel. Black guillemots as usual are close to the sea wall as I cycle there. These fabulous comical looking birds are quickly becoming a favourite of mine.
There
is so a day relaxing instead of cycling to Fort William. Sleep in the
lounge after a breakfast of Lidl's pseudo Hob Nobs, chocolate of
course. An afternoon is spent watching Andy Murray win Wimbledon.
A
text from the Oracle, Phil Andrews.
Apparently
the snow geese on Coll are tickable, a C2 population,
Last year Phil and I had talked about these geese after
I had searched them out and saw a group of twenty one of them,
including one juvenile.
Plastic fantastic was Phil's verdict back then
and I didn't count them on my 2015 Green Year list despite stating
that they were category C on BOU.
So great, now he tells me that I should have done back
then and that I could have done if I had seen them yesterday.
Actually I had looked for them yesterday but not with
any real conviction as the rain fell and a gale blew.
From the comfortable lounge of the youth hostel I
determined that I would go back to Coll tomorrow.
Meanwhile the weather in Oban? Drizzle and light rain
for the morning followed by a dry afternoon with a south east wind.
Thanks BBC.
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