Thursday 8th August 2019
Today was forecast to be best weather for the week so we headed off north once more in our summer best for our tour of the power station.
This time we took the road to Oban it was good to have a different view but can see why satnav took us up Loch Fyne last time it is a better quality road if a little futher.
It was an interesting tour, they take you by bus from the visitors centre up and a little way into the mountain, then there is a short walk to the viewing platform where you can see the top of the turbines. They explain how it all works, when and how the power is generated, can start producing power within 28 seconds if generators already switched on, they also had screens showing how much power was being produced at the time by solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, gas etc.
After the tour we had some lunch in the cafe and continued slightly further north to visit Port Appin and Castle Stalker.
Castle Stalker is the castle featured in the Monty Python Holy Grail film, it is privately owned although they offer tours a few times a month with prior booking, it was fully booked for the days we were there.
On the way back to the cottage from Castle Stalker we stopped in Oban to see McCaig’s Tower, it was built to imitate Rome’s Colosseium. From here you can see seaward panoramas over Oban and it’s port, the largest port in north west Scotland.
