We had sailed for 5 days in a row, so decided to take a rest day on Monday. Just a leisurely day with lunch out and a walk on the beach & do a few jobs on the boat including topping up on fuel and water.

Unfortunately Monday night was a bit disturbed as the constant East wind had built up a swell that permeated it’s way into the marina. This meant the boat was lurching around snatching at the mooring lines, with lots of creaking and bumping noises and we had only a few hours sleep.

Still it wasn’t an early start on Tuesday and we eventually set off about 930, our destination Inverness. The swell was about 2 metres which made the boat roll uncomfortably but a steady F4 easterly wind pushed us along, with a tickle of help from the engine to get us to Chanonry Narrows by about 1530 just after the flood tide starts.

Now Chanonry Narrows is the only place in Britain you are virtually guaranteed to see dolphins and we were all psyched up to see them. Loads of people on the shoreline with big telephoto lenses…..NO DOLPHINS, gutted.

Well with only a hour left to run we took pictures of the countryside instead, berthing in Inverness Marina at 1630.

Caledonian Canal tomorrow.