sheilings

The sheilings at Craignure  really impressed us, as they were huge, and we had taken one with two bedrooms, that was fully furnished with bedding and all. As our pockets were a bit to let, we had taken one without a bathroom, as the ablution block was not far from the sheiling, and it was beautifully clean.
Adjoining the ablution block was a tv lounge with a few tables if one wanted to eat there, and also a huge fridge-freezer, and several other kitchen stuff if you wanted to do your cooking in there, but the sheiling itself was adequately furnished for cooking.
There was also a fireplace that was already packed and ready for lighting, so we decided to cook our food and eat while we watched television. As it was so late in the season there was only a few other people, all of them real nice and friendly.
It was a nice spot, and we sat watching the ferries come and go untill it was time to go to bed. In the main room of the sheiling was a gas heater, and it was warm in there, bur I nearly froze to a human lolly in the bedroom, so I decided to put my bed in the sittingroom-kitchen, next to the gas heater and from then on the night passed without my knowing anything about it.
The next morning I was up early, and walked down to the beach, as it was quite a nice day, no sun, but at least the rain had stopped.
As I neared the beach, I saw two dogs playing on the rocks, and I wondered what on earth they were doing so close to the water, as it looked quite deep to me, and the sea not too calm, the breakers running with quite a speed towards the playing dogs. When I got closer though, I saw that it was not dogs at all, but to otters, who jumped into the water when they noticed me, but emmerged almost immediately, and swam away from the rocks, then lay on their backs, watching me.
It was so nice, as they followed me all the way along the beach, showing off something terribly I thought, as they would jump and dive and roll, then stop and look at me to see whether I was watching. I was enjoying their antics emmensely, until I fell into a hole, quite deep and water filled, and muddy, and I had some trouble getting out, until and old man came by and gave me a hand. I felt a bitty silly, but he warned me to watch out, as there were some really deep boggy holes, and he stated that he had once fell into one and sat there for ages, but luckily his loyal dog ran home and alerted his wife! Wow!!
Back at the Sheiling Liz had woken up, but was still in the early stages of her toilet, so I first went for a shower to wash off the mud and both from self and my shoes, then started making breakfast to see if we could start a bit earlier. We were going to Tobermory, and from there wherever the road took us. Liz was not happy, as can be seen on the photo of her eating her breakfast.
I wanted to see the Nun's caves, but we needed a whole day, and so far we were too late every morning, but I was set on seeing that, and I have warned Liz that I was going to empty a bucket of water over her if she wasn't up by eight and ready!