Small Circles

Another fairly easy day today.
After breakfast we headed back up the String Road to see if we could see anything more than we could on Thursday. Visibility still wasn't great, but miles better than Thursday.
This is basically the same image as from Thursday:

You still can't see the top of Goatfell but the rest is visible. This path heads out about 200m to a circular bench which overlooks Glen Rosa and Goatfell.
We continued along the String and headed off into Machie. There is an impressive stone circle but this time we headed off to see the stone circle at Auchagallon.

A little bit of forced perspective going on here as the stones are only a few feet high. It seems that these were more usually a kerbed cairn with the stones almost acting as retaining walls, but excavations during the 19th century often didn't put them back together the same way.
At this point the weather changed. Every time we would get somewhere it would start to rain. We would either wait it out and eventually give up, or just move on immediately. We did make it back up to Lochranza and had a look at the castle.

We continued along the coast, saw an outboard powered Viking long boat, and bough some cheese.
After dinner we continued the ritual and spent about 2 hours in the pool