We are very accustomed to our wonderful West Ardnamurchan panoramas being obscured, but not by a heat haze. This is the view across Kilchoan Bay at 7.00am this morning, on a day when the temperature hit 27C - yes, twenty-seven degrees Celsius in May!This is hotter than Algiers, Athens, Melbourne (it is winter there), Nairobi, Jerusalem, London and Palma, and almost as hot as Accra in Ghana, West Africa.
It was so hot that the family, and a friend, in a moment of madness, decided they ought to go swimming. Or, rather, the women did, the men, being a little more wise, felt that a first dabble at the mackerel, off a kayak, might be a better idea.The women survived the experience, just, and the men didn't catch any mackerel. But the temperature tomorrow is forecast to be even higher.
May is my favourite time to visit the Scottish west coast, I have some photos of the family in Mull in 2008 with crystal clear seas and blue skies which look like they could be from the Carribean (minus the palm trees of course). I hope it stays for you!
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