The weather has been great since Friday. No cloud in the sky and up to 28°C, plus no wind since Sunday. That is always a good mix when going out sea kayaking.
Sunday I took Helen out around Guinard Island. The Island was used as a biological warfare test site during World War 2 and is therefore also known as anthrax island. The island has been declared safe in 1990.

We put in at a sandy beach near Little Gruinard and started paddling around the west side of Gruinard Island. This is some of the most astonishing rocky coastline I have seen in the Scottish Highlands. There are many places to do rockhopping and caves to pop your nose into. There are even some narrow channels behind rocks where you can just about fit a sea kayak through but would be able to paddle only on one side. After a short lunch break on the island we headed back along the coast to Little Gruinard.

On Monday we went to do Point of Stoer. The weather conditions looked really favourable for doing headlands and the Stoer is a classic. To start the sea looked nice and gentle with just some small swells. This would change the closer Helen and I got to the Point of Stoer. The swells started to go up to about 1.5 metres and a north-easterly force 3 kicked up some waves. To make it just a little more interesting some sea har moved in just when we started paddling around the point. The visibility was between 50 and 100 metres at that point, which gave the paddle another interesting twist. I didn't want to get too far away from the cliffs to lose sight of them but I most certainly didn't want to get too close either. Anyway, all was fine once around the point and passed the Old Man of Stoer which was shrouded in fog. The further we got away from the old man the easier the paddle became and just passed Cluas Deas Lighthouse was a lovely wee beach to stretch legs and have a barbeque. After that paddle a sunbath and some burgers just hit the spot. The rest of the paddle was pretty eventless apart from that otter that jumped into the water next to Helen's kayak and again popped out his head right in front of my kayak.