by nerabus7932 » Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:14 pm
Floating through might be quite fun but I have a vague memory that the current runs the other way, so you would end up on Eigg... Cycling would be a very good idea but my teenage daughter doesn't like cycling. Last time I came over Kylerea Ferry on a bicycle was in 1968. I camped somewhere up the glen (on the Skye side) on a steep slope. It poured with rain during the night and I woke up with a small stream running through the tent and had to spend the next two days squatting in a derelict croft house somewhere outside Breakish drying everything out. Subsequently I set fire to my jeans cooking sausages in my tent on Loch Ness side, and shortly afterwards I was arrested in Fort William - the police were looking for 'a dishevelled character on a racing bike' (which I was) who had robbed a house and half-killed the occupant (it wasn't me!) in Dingwall. I had no ID and would probably still be banged up there but fortunately the Police station Secretary had been at Oban High School with me and knew who I was. So cycling in the Highlands was, at least in those days, fraught with difficulty. I remember you had to carry loads of food, like an expedition, because there was nowhere to buy anything to eat. And of course, unless you were rich, your bike had only 1 gear. Happy trails! Andrew.
