Day 1: 12th July 2006

Day 1

Flew up from a sunny Bristol to a rain-soaked and very dreeck Glasgow Airport. Crammed all our kit, luggage and over-wrapped bodies into a six seater hire car and set off for the Highlands and Islands. En route took footage of the Glasgow to Loch Fyne road –site of two trips: Prentice and Ashley and then Verity and Lewis with Prentice in the back.

Arrived in Barnlongart to a 1930s hunting lodge cum bungalow at about lunch time, with spectacular views of Jura down the end of a long green valley stocked with rabbits and circling buzzards.

We Shot at Dunamuc-site in the novel of the Fergus Urvill’s castle “Gaineamh”. The farmer had not heard of the Crow Road-“It’s a place in Glasgow” but was happy for us to fim below the slurry pit. Briefly shot Duntroon Castle which is a possible model for the Urvill’s castle

Went on to Gallanach bay by an increasingly flaky track which is sited opposite Crinan : instead of a large port we found an empty bay with three slow and salty sheep.