Sandwood Bay

Today we did the four-mile walk from Oldshoremore to visit Sandwood Bay.

Following an extremely wet summer, simply getting to the bay was a real adventure - in several places the 'official' route was submerged by encroaching lochs, necessitating in some cases, taking off one's boots and socks and paddling through the water, and in others, finding a 'dry' route around the obstruction through the surrounding peat bogs.

It was worth it though just to experience the natural grandeur of the bay - including the Lon Mor river running out of the loch in spate right across the sands (as seen in the foreground here).

We were initially surprised to find so few shells on the beach (compared to those we usually visit over on the East Coast); then we realised that the beach was covered in tiny fragments of shells - those waves breaking in from the open Atlantic must pound most of them to pieces.

No sign of the mermaid today however.