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| Loch Lubnaig and An Sidhean |
We watched the River Balvag getting higher every day - no wonder, with the amount of rain that has fallen since we arrived at the Immervoulin Campsite - and we gave up thinking that we could drop the canoe straight into the river from our pitch. The water rushed passed in turbulent spate - we might be able to guide the canoe down to Loch Lubnaig, but wouldn't be able to paddle back.
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| Loch Lubnaig and Ben Ledi |
So we strapped the boat onto the roof of the car, drove south for a couple of miles and launched onto Loch Lubnaig from the shore beside the A84.
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| Loch Lubnaig flood plain and reed beds |
We paddled north, exploring the flooded shoreline, the burns feeding the loch and amongst the reeds across the flooded plain.
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| Loch Lubnaig flood plain and reed beds |
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| Loch Lubnaig - views south |
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| Loch Lubnaig - views south to Ben Ledi |
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| Loch Lubnaig - views north |
We paddled around the Roinn Mhor and to the mouth of the River Balvag - we'd explore until the current got too strong for us...
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| River Balvag and An Sidhean |
It doesn't look like it its flowing so fast in the pictures - but it was seriously hard work!
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| Immervoulin Campsite from River Balvag |
We did manage to get upstream as far as the campsite - before being swept downstream to the loch again
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| River Balvag |
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| River Balvag - south towards Ben Ledi |
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| Loch Lubnaig and An Sidhean |
There's a little lochan - Lochan Buidhe - just to the north of Loch Lubnaig. The water water was so high that we could paddle through the woods and into this new lochan - great fun!
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| Woods between Loch Lubnaig and Lochan Buidhe |
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| Between Loch Lubnaig and Lochan Buidhe |
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| Looking north across Lochan Buidhe |
We paddled around the lochan, across some fields and over a fence...
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| Lochan Buidhe and An Sidhean |
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| On Lochan Buidhe |
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| Lochan Buidhe |
...before making our way back through the woods and to Loch Lubnaig.
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| Between Lochan Buidhe and Loch Lubnaig |
It was starting to get dark. Time to head back across the water to the car - but not before we had a close encounter with two very lovely fellow paddlers.
And there's plenty more of Loch Lubnaig to explore another day.
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| Mute swans on Loch Lubnaig |
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