Philip Williams   Writer & video biographer
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Sunday 6th May 2012

6/5/2012

 
Awoke to glorious blue sky, but chilly.  Off over the moor and its vertiginous paths above vertical drops into the sea.  At the cliff-end of Cama Mor beach I took the slightly more defined path to ‘Ivor’s Bothy’ before chilling on the Shangri-La that is ‘Loch Ceann A Charnaich’.  It is simply paradise.  Later that day I heard a flapping noise and looked up.  A white-tailed eagle (sea eagle) swooped over my head less than 10 feet above me and veered off into a wood.  Wow!  Over the next hour I watched this incredible bird flying to and from its nest.  It was huge, powerful - amazing!  What an honour, and one of the highlights of my entire walk so far.  What an incredible thing to witness.  Finally, I tore myself away, but plan to return with my film equipment one day if the bird is still there.

I continued along the boggy, stony, sometimes hard-to-follow path south east to a farm just west of Midtown before reaching the road, and then headed south alongside Loch Ewe towards Poolewe where I was staying the night.  

Just south of Naast I looked up to the ridgeline to see what I initially thought was a buzzard.  Then I realised the bird was much further away than I thought and had slightly forward-swept wings.  Then it soared north eastwards, its wings slightly hunched and folded, and I realised it was a golden eagle.  So I have been spoilt today.  Tonight I stayed at the ‘Poolewe Hotel’ and so I sorted out my kit, hung out my tent and sleeping bag in my hotel room to dry and air.  Then a bath, shave and dinner, followed by a dram and bed!  Rest day tomorrow!


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