Once we finally reached the car park at Balmaha the light was still rather boring thanks to a variable thickness layer of cloud which didn’t look like it would shift anytime soon. So rather than another walk along a fairly bland shoreline, we decided to use the path up Conic Hill which leads from the rear of the car park. Let’s ignore the fact I tore my left calf muscle a few weeks ago and that walking on the flat is still somewhat painful, let alone climbing a hill. Thankfully it turned out to be worthwhile as the nature of the cloud cover meant there were interesting layers with varying levels of light filtering through and some almost direct light on part of the loch itself.

I couldn’t resist this next shot. There are plenty of sheep roaming freely around the hill and every now and then one of them actually does something interesting (like using a hang glider or giving guided tours to other sheep). Well this one didn’t do either of those things, but it did let me get close enough for the following photo without running away. That’s good enough for now, I suppose.

There is actually a sequence of three photographs here, this being the 2nd (I really must get them together somewhere). The first in the sequence is Pete taking a photo of the Maid of the Loch (the paddle steamer in the above), the second being me capturing Pete taking that photo and the third provided by Sean who just happened to capture a photo of me shooting this.

That would be Sean, becoming very bored while waiting for the oldish DSLR he was using to save the photos to storage card. I suspect it was really etching them into granite with hammer and chisel … it certainly takes long enough.