Friday was walking day again and this time through Eas Mor to Loch Garbad, this is our fourth of the forty recommended walks on Arran so we have completed ten per cent, not bad for the week. The lake is a private fishing spot but you can buy a permit at the local caravan park though you would have to be keen as it is a long haul and the fishing must be good. The path is a climb through forest, not bad but quite soggy underfoot in parts but again spectacular views. The promised waterfall was pretty but as it was on private land you could not get very close. Another Game of Thrones potential location with moss covered trees and bog. We passed a peat bog where the top layer had been cut and turned to dry before collection, Yesterday at the Folk Museum we saw special spades to cut peat but in this instance it looks like a JCB was involved.
Finally we arrived at the Loch in perfect conditions, sun and no wind and the reflections were perfect, I took the pictures and five minutes later the wind got up and the reflections disappeared so we arrived just in time. After fifteen minutes we started back which was a lot easier being downhill, more trees and forest, and mud.
We had a late lunch again at Felicitys Cafe and Bar in Whiting Bay then onto Lochranza where somebody had told us you could see deer if you went up a track, and there they were, a whole herd grazing on the golf course, tick number three on the fauna list
Total distance for the day 7.3 km - total distance walked for the week 37.42 km... whew
Peat lives here
spectacular views
Penny had to clear a path
muddy tracks
Loch Garbad
dear and deer
majestic