Lobster creeling, Atlantic rowing boat, climbing, kayaking and more

Busy first full day starts with a run or swim before breakfast

Our days start at 7am at the Adventure School with a run or a swim. It was the blues opportunity to swim if they wanted to and nearly all 26 kitted themselves up in wetsuits and swam with their instructors out to the platform that floats in Loch A Chadh-Fi. Everyone else went for a jog along the track, just to get the blood flowing before breakfast.

Breakfast is a three course process with porridge and cereals followed by bacon and eggs and toast and jam, essential fuel for the day! At the end of breakfast all the pupils made packed lunches ready to be out all day.

In the morning the three Red teams jumped into the boats (Argo and Victoria) and headed across the loch to pick up lobster creels and see both the rowing boat used by Rebecca’s father to cross the north Atlantic in 1966, and Rebecca’s Cape Horn sea kayak.

It’s early season for the lobster creeling but we had a good haul of brown, spider, velvet and shore crabs, one juvenile lobster and lots of whelks. Always a scene of great excitement as the creels are hauled aboard, the catch checked and returned to the sea.

In the meantime the Blues were climbing, sea kayaking, or looking at the fire and food elements of the survival skills that they will need for the island.

Reds and Blues swapped places in the afternoon with the Blues then departing for Lone, the wild basecamp close to Ben Stack.

Blues will make their summit attempt on the mountain tomorrow and Reds will be at the Adventure School getting stuck in to more rock climbing and survival skills before heading out to camp when the Blues return.

A really great bunch of enthusiastic young adventurers. ‘Stretch don’t cruise’.