Rona wrap-up
For two years, I've intended to return to Rona to finish off the few remaining green squares. This weekend brought settled fine weather, a favourable tide (low in the early afternoon for those low-lying rocks) and, not least, no personal commitments.
So I set off out along Loch Torridon, arriving at Rubha na Fearna an hour or so below low tide. Unable to find Murchadh Breac immediately, I put in briefly to get an accurate grid reference - and found the rock, still half a metre below. Hanging around for an hour or so allowed me to photograph it awash , then I was off to Rona.
Cow Rock was my first target, though I failed to include any of the seals or puffins that were around. I tried to get Na Gamhnachain and its buoy in the background, but those pictures were unusable due to water blurring on the lens.
A small tidal rock was all that's in NG6161; NG6160 has much more land, and I chose to climb to the top of the tallest island to get a good view of the skerries . That completes hectad NG66.
Heading south, I was briefly distracted by a couple of dolphins leaping (you can see on the GPS track where I circled around for a better look), but eventually reached Garbh Eilean, and captured the tiny portion that extends into NG6253 . I believed I had completed NG65, but discovered after I got back that I'd missed one near the beginning of the trip - that's easily reachable by land, so I can probably return quite soon to bag that on another day. After that, it was a matter of following a bearing back to Murchadh Breac, and thence to Kenmore. Total time just over ten hours, distance 50.7km.
You can see this trip plotted on a map on the Geo-trips page at Link .
- When
- Tue, 5 Jul 2011 at 12:47
- Grid Square
- NG6160
- Chosen Photo
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