Part 2: Day's 3 to 5 Of our 5 day Sea Kayaking trip around the entire "Slate Isles" Group Including; Scarba, Belnahua, Fladda, Insh, Seil, Luing.
Day 3: Will and I leave Belnahua and head NE to Easdale, out to Insh and around the West side, then over to the North of Seil Island, down Claggan Sound, under the "Bridge Over The Atlantic" then down to Cuan Sound, spending the night in "Argyll Kayakers Cove" where we met up with our other friends to kayak with them as they were doing a day trip the next day.
Day4: We all left 'Kayakers Cove" with the main group circumnavigating Luing clockwise, Will and I had fully packed the boats expecting to paddle down the West side of Luing meeting the main group for lunch at the south end the pressing on back to our start point at Lunga Estates, however after 3 of the other group had joined us my mind had started working overtime and suggested that the have some fun playing in Grey Dogs tide race as a little bit later it would be on maximum flood on one of the biggest tides of the year!! They were up for some fun, so when stopping for lunch they told the main group who were up for it too....However Will fancied it to, I reminded him that we were in still in fully laden sea boats but he still fancied checking it out. I thought it was a daft idea but was up for it too. after lunch we all set off across the Sound of Luing to Scarba. We split into 2 groups for safety and they wanted me to lead. So foo we went at great speed!! Ive never seen Grey Dogs going that fast, everything was 'washed out' but the overfalls had produced 2 huge whirlpools which I narrowly managed to avoid, as did the rest of our group. Unfortunately one member the other group went straight into the vortex of one, she took a swim but the rest of the group did a swift rescue while we waited in the eddies. We continued up the west side of Lunga and Rubha Fiola, breaking out into the flood stream of the Sound of Luing to paddle across to Cuan Sound via Fladda to finally land back at Kayakers Cove for another night in the tent.
Day 5: Setting off from Cuan across the top end of Torsa to paddle through the narrow gap on a Spring Tide otherwise it's nearly always dried out !! Once though the gap we had a straight run South East to our starting point at Lunga Estates, passing Shuna and Craobh Haven marina.
This had been a magnificent trip in challenging conditions every day but still managed a total of 71 miles over the 4.5 days.
Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:00 - Title, Welcome & Area Map
0:34 - Day 3 Route Plan
0:53 - Belnahua Camp
1:15 - Belnahua Aerial Views
1:36 - Fladda Aerial Views
1:53 - Flooded Slate Quarries
2:08 - Leaving Belnahua
3:05 - Arriving Easdale Island & Ellenabeich
3:31 - Easdale & Ellenabeich Aerial Views & Slate Mining History
4:12 - Slate Mining Disaster & Flooding
4:39 - Journey to Insh
4:58 - Views of Mull from Insh
5:26 - Insh West Side
6:10 - Journey Back to Seil Island and Search for Claggan Sound
6:50 - Claggan Sound
7:36 - Bridge Over The Atlantic or Claggan Bridge
8:01 - Balvicar
8:18 - Entering Cuan Sound
8:50 - Cuan Ferry & Argyll Kayakers Cove
9:06 - Argyll Kayakers Cove
9:19 - Day 3 GPS Route Trace
9:44 - Day 3 - 4 Camp
10:45 - Day 4 Plan & Launch
11:25 - Leaving Cuan for the West of Luing
12:00 - Otter Spotting
12:59 - Luing's West Coast & Cullipool
13:39 - Cullipool Slate Museum
14:30 - My Mad Plan Idea
14:52 - Day 4 Lunch Stop
15:15 - Crossing Sound of Luing to Scarba & Grey Dogs
15:56 - Sea Eagle in Flight
16:21 - Grey Dogs Tidal Race & Whirlpools
19:30 - Incident Check/Recap
20:19 - Lunga & Rubha Fiola West Side
20:38 - Rubha Fiola / Ormsa Tide Race Strategy
21:22 - Tide Race Break In & Crossing to Fladda
22:16 - Fladda Tide Race Regroup
23:08 - Crossing Back to Luing & Cuan Sound
23:50 - Entering Cuan Sound from the West Side against the Tide
24:40 - Landing back at Argyll Kayakers Cove
24:17 - Day 4 GPS Route Trace
25:43 - Day 4 - 5 Evening Camp
26:20 - Day 5 Breakfast & Packing
26:50 - Plan & Launch
27:13 - Crossing Cuan Sound
27:43 - Cuan Diving Memories
28:00 - Searching for Torsa's West Channel
29:12 - Loch Melfort Wind
29:58 - Returning to Lunga Estates
30:38 - Day 5 GPS Route Trace & Final Mileage
31:30 - End Cards & Links
22 май 2024
