Headed for Ardfern where our friends Annie and Peter were staying and got a photo at the famous wooden pointing hand!. Then headed up some Steep hills before reaching Oban. Scott's Achilles was causing a lot of pain so we stopped at the local pharmacy to take on some ibuprophen and paracetamol.
We Grabbed some mackerel sandwiches from the local co-op and headed to the harbour for lunch, coach loads of tourists seem to appear from nowhere eating chips and crayfish !
The road out of Oban is narrow and climbs quite steeply but soon we reached the iron Connell Bridge. An impressive metal structure that spans the Loch Etive river, the changing tides are quite impressive and lots of kayakers make the most of the turbulent rip tides.
We headed onto Benderloch towards Port Appin along some single track lanes. The views to Mull were quite breath taking with impressive views to the island of Lismore.
The small village of Appin has a narrow jetty which many sail boats head for to frequent the amazing Hotel and restaurant called the Pier House Hotel renown for its fine fish cuisine. We had the mussels and Pier platter which was a real treat. The locals and visitors were very friendly and the owner made us quite at home with tales of other travellers that had passed through raising money for charity.
Well as you will see the food and company was amazing so we're now heading to bed we've a long day to Loch Ness staying at Drumnadrochit.
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