Last night on the mainland

And one of our last nights in Willow potentially.

We all slept well last night and made the most of that extra hour :). It was a windy, rainy night but we all slept better in the van than we had in the cottage, even though I woke a couple of times when the wind rocked the van it was only to think ‘oh, I’m in Willow’ and snuggle back down in my sleeping bag again.

After breakfast and second cups of tea we decided to go for a walk so had another wander around Mallaig including popping into the CoOp for some bits for dinner. The woman behind the counter commented on the weather and said she hoped it would be better tomorrow. I agreed and said we were off to Eigg so didn’t want a bumpy crossing and she reminded me that it might be no crossing at all if the weather was bad. I hear Calmac cancelling crossings all the time on the travel reports on the radio so knew it was a possibility and we’d already debated what we’d do if we couldn’t get across to Eigg. We’d agreed to hang about til Wednesday or Thursday before giving up but haven’t given much thought at all to being stuck on Eigg – after all that will be out of our hands!

We decided to pop into the ferry office anyway just to see what their weather predictions were saying for tomorrow and were very glad we did as they have got a problem with their usual ferry and will be running a smaller replacement with far less seats. We booked places and will need to be at the port earlier than planned in the morning.

Back at the van we had lunch and played some games of cards – we quite like Donkey but it does get the kids quite fired up :). Then we watched most of Despicable Me on the old laptop which we just use as a dvd player until the battery ran out (we got a good hour out of it). Then I made dinner – pasta bake and we listened to the radio.

Ady washed up and I read stories and we all theoretically got to bed early again although of course no one is asleep yet.

It’s been a biding time sort of day, there isn’t really anything to do in walking distance and it’s not even nice walking weather. We spent lots of time gazing out the van windows at the sea which was very dramatic and has Skye, Rumm and Eigg in the distance but it would not be somewhere we’d have spent two nights if we were not waiting for the ferry.

Looking forward to tomorrow and hoping the hosts are nice and we have some access to electric and phone or 3 signal to stay in touch a little bit.