Our next planned island hop was to Islay and Jura so taking a couple of short drive on/off ferries onto the mainland we positioned ourselves north of Campbeltown with a view of visiting the CalMac booking office to obtain tickets. Annoyingly the offices were closed and after several attempts Charles managed to log onto their site which had posted a statement that due to breakdowns and necessary repairs they were only able to offer a limited service with preference given to local residents and commercial vehicles meaning currently there were no ferries to Islay 😥

So undaunted we did a quick rethink and decided to head to Oban and take a ferry to the Outer Hebridean island of Barra and managed to book ourselves a ferry space online. So onwards and upwards