I had to delay the return to my walking due to a death in the family. Peter Dale-Thomas was very much in my thoughts as I returned to Ullapool today. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s with Lewys bodies (a form of Parkinson’s) for many years.
I returned to the ‘Royal Hotel’ in Ullapool where I had reached in May. I went back to see Eddie and Wendy Hughes at ‘Braemore Square Country House’ B&B. As promised, Eddie very kindly lent me his rod and I spent a couple of hours fishing his beautiful stretch of the River Broom. I couldn’t believe my luck when I hooked a lovely salmon and watched her circle the pool in which she was hooked before shaking herself off the end of my line! What a pleasure and a privilege! I also had a feisty sea trout on my line and it returned to the river to grow wider, longer and wiser. Later on in the day I returned to the 'Corrieshalloch Gorge' for another dose of vertigo before heading back to the hotel for the evening.
I returned to the ‘Royal Hotel’ in Ullapool where I had reached in May. I went back to see Eddie and Wendy Hughes at ‘Braemore Square Country House’ B&B. As promised, Eddie very kindly lent me his rod and I spent a couple of hours fishing his beautiful stretch of the River Broom. I couldn’t believe my luck when I hooked a lovely salmon and watched her circle the pool in which she was hooked before shaking herself off the end of my line! What a pleasure and a privilege! I also had a feisty sea trout on my line and it returned to the river to grow wider, longer and wiser. Later on in the day I returned to the 'Corrieshalloch Gorge' for another dose of vertigo before heading back to the hotel for the evening.