Loch Lomond and the Trossachs - Rowing and Fishing

After our adventurous day yesterday and coming third and winning a lemon at the quiz night, we went out for a relaxing rowing session on Loch Achray. One of my friends had mentioned it was only £5 for half a day when she was last there back in 2012. Only 4 years have passed and the price has remained the same!

I never knew how difficult it was to row a boat. They make it look so easy in the films and television programmes. I really struggled on my own but what do you expect, I am only a 14cm/5.5inch sea lemon!

Phew! It was hard work!

Tell you what though, the views of the house were once again gorgeous. Even more so with only water between it and the boat.

Back on dry land, we had lunch then plodded onto our afternoon activity; fishing.
Our ghillie Morris was incredibly informative and also a very good teacher on dry land. For the 40 or so years he has been a professional fisherman, I imagine his teaching skills will flourish once on the water.

And just as I thought, Morris proved to be a patient teacher as we suspected he would be. His patience paid off too because we caught 8 fish during the 2 hours we had on the Lochan. We only kept 1 fish for our tea.

And she was beautiful in both appearance and taste and I'm sure the creature (hopefully the resident pine martin) round the back of the recycling store agreed too!