Friday 2nd August 2019
Today was our last on the Isle of Bute, and it was lovely and sunny again. We spent the morning in Rothesay watching the ferries and boats coming an going before some lunch in one of the harbour front cafes.
We then drove up to Rhubodach at the north of the Isle of Bute to catch the roll on roll off ferry across to Colintraive. The ferry journey took less than 5 minutes.
Back on the mainland continued our journey over into Argyll, where we got a great view out of the Kyles of Bute which flow down each side of the Isle of Bute and could see the ferry we had just been on. We made our way down to Portavadie to catch our second ferry of the day, taking us across Loch Fyne to Tarbert. It is possible to drive around the loch but it adds an extra 90 miles onto the journey.
We stopped for a short while in Tarbert which has a very pretty harbour with lots of small fishing and pleasure boats. We walked up the hill to see Tarbert Church.
Gavin did a great job driving from Tarbert down a narrow single lane road with passing places to Carradale on the Kintyre peninsula. On the way we took a small detour to visit Skipness Castle. Skipness is also where the ferry goes across to Arran from, somewhere we don’t have time to visit on this holiday.
