Add

We had heavy rain overnight and it was stil raining early this morning when Maeve the Deerhound decided she really had to go out. However, the forecast was for it to dry up throught the morning so we thought we might spend the day in Kilmartin Glen.

We parked the car in the car park at Lady Glassary wood and explored the standing stones at Nether Largie, the Templewood cirlces, and the Nether Largie South cairn. Then we walked back to the car round the road past Ri Cruin cairn. We drove up to the Kilmartin House Museum and had lunch in the cafe.

In the afternoon we had a wander from the cafe round to the path that runs down the side of the glen past Glebe cairn, Nether Largie North cairn, and Nether Largie Mid cairn. It is a good solid path, very good for walking Maeve. Not such a lazy day for Maeve today.

We had a quick visit to Lochgilphead to get things for dinner, then came back to our cottage. As we were sitting having some tea the sun came out and lit up the hill right across from us and on the other side of the river Add. I was able to pick up my camera, open the front door, and get this shot. It is very representative of the landscape and colours we enjoyed today so I decided it would be the one to post.

The river Add rises in the hills seven miles or so North of Lochgilphead. It flows South and West and passes by the site of the Dunadd Iron Age fort and Dunadd Farm where we are staying before crossing the Mòine Mhòr Nature Reserve and ending at Loch Crinan by the hamlet of Bellanoch, where it is crossed by an 1851 cast-iron bridge before it runs into the Sound of Jura.