Friday 3rd August 2019
For the next week we have booked a cottage on the Crinan canal, however we wanted to see some of southern Kintyre before we headed up there. So we left Carradale where we overnighted and headed south to Southend. Southend is a small collection of local services in beautiful scenery. Close by is Dunaverty Bay a beautiful sandy beach curving around Dunaverty Point. There is a lifeboat station with operated between 1869 and 1930.
After a lovely stroll along the beach and back we carried on towards the Mull of Kintyre, well me made it about half way! The road was so narrow with a very bad surface and it just got worse and steeper if we had carried on. Even if we had made it there was a long steep walk to get to the lighthouse or the memorial and we wouldn’t have had the correct footwear.
After turning back from the Mull of Kintyre the road took us back through Campbelltown which we passed through yesterday. This time we stopped and found a little cafe for lunch, I had a lovely jacket potato.
After lunch we carried on towards our cottage, with a brief stop in Ardrishaig to stretch our legs and take a few photo’s.
We found the cottage relatively easy thanks to the great directions provided. It is small and cosy with one double and one twin room and has all that we need for the week. We are right next to the Crinan Canal but there is a grass bank between us so we can’t clearly see the boats going by. Once we were settled in I took advantage of the cottages facilities and put on a load of washing.