Friday 7 July
We motored down Gaer Loch, past the submarine base at Farslane, and although we didn’t see any, they could be heard on the radio. A harbour porpoise surfaced briefly in almost the same place as we saw one yesterday, like a ‘hello and goodbye’. The wind was light and bent around by high hills, causing big fluctuations in speed. Trevver helped us from time to time, especially as we cleared under power lines 76 metres above the water. They tied me to a mooring at Lochgoilhead, at the top of Loch Goil, 
off Loch Long, and I settled down under a beautiful full moon – it’s been so misty and cloudy it hasn’t been seen for the last few days. Apparently it’s hot in London: oh for a few of their excess degrees…