A chilly morning after last night’s rain, the temperature had dropped to a cool 12 °C. After a lazy morning, treating ourselves to a cooked breakfast, it was a very short trip, only a couple of miles, to get to Laggan Locks. As we were now at the highest point in the lock system, this was the first time that Russell & Nicky experienced descending in the locks. We stopped for the day at the pontoons in the small bay to the North of Loch Lochy. We did a few chores around the boat and after Iunch we walked along The Great Glen Way. Up the North side to the Swing bridge we’d sailed past earlier, then across back along the wooded path on the southern side, then back to the boat.
At Laggan Locks there is a floating restuarant on a converted Dutch Barge. We enquired for a table, unfortunately it was fully booked for the evening but were serving bar meals so we decided to go for that. When we arrived it was immediately obvious why it was fully booked, there was only 3 tables giving just 10 covers and they only open 5:30pm to 8.00pm. The other half of the boat was a bar lounge with only 2 customers sitting on one of three large sofas at one end. It’s a great little place and I suppose they know their customer base better than we do but to only open for two and a half hours with only 3 tables seems daft. That’s typical of the Caledonian canal, at the stopping places, there’s few shops or restuarants, unless you are inclined to walk a few miles.
Traditional pub meals were eaten, and very nice too, but no pudding so we ordered 2 more meals and shared them! Back to the boat for a nightcap before our beds were calling.
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