Pre-breakfast swim for the QEH boys

The boys arrived at the road end at about 10:30 pm last night. From there we loaded the hold bags onto the pickup truck and trailer and set off for the 15-minute walk along the vehicle track. Rain coming in on the breeze gave an exciting walk-in in the half-dark. We had a quick mug of hot chocolate and a cookie before heading to bed.

Our days here start at 7 am with a run or a swim before breakfast. Today we went for the wet option. The Red and Blue teams (Year 6s) went first with the Greens (Year 7) following close behind. We swam to the raft in the middle of the sea loch to jump and dive from.

The boys are having breakfast now before taking some time to unpack and ready themselves for a full day of adventures. The Reds and Blues will be out on the remote Ardbeg peninsula looking at ‘fire and food’ skills in preparation for the island, with Jon and Charlotte. The Greens will be rock climbing and abseiling with Zeki and Mark.

We’ll update the journal tomorrow evening with more photos and a bit of chat. In the meantime, the boys are all well and raring to go!