We went ashore at Kentallen for a drink but eating in the hostelry was vetoed by Helen as being “unsuitable”.

We left a rather dubious mooring rope in the morning to motor down in windless conditions to Kingairloch. Inevitably as we arrived it started to spit with rain.

At the entrance to the Loch was a salmon farm——the large generators were running and oxygenating the water and the salmon were leaping about like caged animals—they looked as though they were desperate to be released to set off up the lochs and rivers. We had never seen this before and it made the eating of farmed salmon all rather off-putting.

The location was beautiful—even in the gloom and doom of a damp Scottish day!

and Helen was determined to make up for the ‘boat cooking’ the night before by visiting the Michelin acclaimed Boathouse restaurant.

We rowed ashore and made our lunch booking for this restaurant in the remotest of places

and then walked back to the village at the entrance to to the loch to visit the pilot book ‘must’ of a visit to the little church to see the stained glass windows

We had a lovely lunch and then walked around the walled garden where we found a memorial plaque on a central seat celebrating the 70th birthday of Angela Yeoman. It all then clicked into place—this is the location of the vast Scottish stone quarry of the Yeoman family who also own large quarries near Frome, Somerset where we used to live. The current owner of the Estate is Mrs Larson, who also lives in Somerset, and who has developed the estate (holiday cottages, shooting, stalking, fishing, hydro electric etc etc) plus a very good restaurant. Sadly Angela Yeoman has since died and the Yeoman business, started by her ‘farming’ husband has been sold. The quarry which is a few miles down the coast can only be accessed by sea and the extraction tunnels go several miles into the mountain which is being removed—slowly. There is no road access and the stone is taken away by ship——Channel Tunnel construction, roads in the south of England and the eastern seaboard of the USA are just a few destinations.

It then poured with rain for the rest of the day and night—torrential !!