Road to the isles, 23rd June, coast and flowers
The morning of the 23rd proved to be sunny with stacks of cumulus cloud. We had planned a walk but I had time to slip across the road to the beach to make some more abstract pictures of the view across Kilchattan bay. Our plan took us again to the other side of the island, back to the Kyles of Bute. If you drive up the north west coast as far as you can, you come to a small car park where you can leave the car before carrying on by a footpath that leads to Kilmichael and another ancient chapel. We did not manage to get all the way there as Rene could not manage the distance, but the sides of the path were full of wild flower I photographed as we went. Here we have foxglove, yellow flag, a picture of the coast looking across the Kyles, yellow pimpernel and buttercup. Everything was flowering much later than at home in Essex, I even saw a few bluebells out.