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Monday 4th October 2004
    
So yeah . . . I tried to use this 'stitch assist' feature of my camera with, erm . . . some degree of success. This is about twenty to twelve, and we've decided to see how far those paths go from yesterday. The individual pictures are there to the right and my awful attempt to join them all together is below there. Hmmmmm.
As you can see, the weather was a bit better today . . . less clouds. I could point out individual buildings, but I'm not sure I can be bothered . . . the Mishnish is the yellow one near the right hand side, between the red and blue buildings. Then you've got the MacDonald Arms (?!) (or the Aros Lounge . . . whatever) - that light blue building in the left most picture. I think my B & B, the Harbour Guest House, is largely obscured by trees on the far right. Tarn's hostel was perhaps that red-ish building to the left on the second picture from the right end. Anyway . . .
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Then we found this gorgeous lake . . . set amidst Aros Park. It was about quarter past twelve when we got here. We sat down at the edge of the lake and rested for about half an hour.
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Then we carried on walking around the lake, diverting slightly to check out some more waterfalls and this curious bit of machinery (12:57). . . I reckon it was some kind of generator, converting the potential energy of the water into kinetic and then electric . . . it would make sense. Dunno why they don't still have these working. But hey . . . then there was this hoooooj waterfall (13:02), the photo of which barely does justice, of course. Then, four minutes later, third picture from the left, who should we bump into but an excellent example of amanita muscaria. Looks slightly pink, doesn't it? And the other mushroom, don't know what that was . . . the gills had a curious blue/purple tinge to them tough. Hmmmm. We walked back down towards the lake and carried on walking around the edge, passing a few people fishing and a dog.
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Yeah, so then we carried on walking . . . stumbling upon this flat bit of green (a picnic site, according to the map). Just as we were deciding where to sit, it started pouring it down again. But it was okay - the benches were sheltered. We sat there for a while, drinking water, eating Go-Bar and Tobermory hand-made chocolate.  And, then . . . erm . . . it's 13:31 and we spot someone walking their horse, which was kind of weird. And then, half an hour later, two more pictures of a waterfall, this time from the top. We were heading back at this point, but had spotted a signpost pointing to a waterfall, so we couldn't really resist. Oh, and that's a tree and some stone steps to the right there . . . 14:22, almost back at Tobermory.
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So yeah . . . we get back to Tobermory, we wander around the boardwalk for a while, checking out the various boats, catamarans (okay, maybe there was only one) and dinghies . . . but we're a bit wet and the rain's getting heavier, so we head back to MacGochan's, mindful of the next tour of the distillery, due to start at 16:00. We got there slightly late. The first part of the tour was this video (as can be seen in the first two pictures there). There were only four of us there. I had to try very hard to hold back the hysterics, as that cat was just staring at me with those dopey kind of eyes . . . That last picture . . . I think that's the inside of Mishnish, at 18:41.
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