We are staying near Oban for a few days. Our temporary home is a modern studio flat called the Look Out at Otter Creek in Taynuilt.
We arrived yesterday. Today the sun has shone. We got to Mass last night at the Cathedral in Oban.
Today we went for a drive. We stopped at the nearby Bonawe Historic Iron Furnace which was founded in 1753 by a business man from the Lake District who found a regular supply of wood for the funrnace difficult to come by. There was much wood in this area.
After that we drove towards Oban and stopped off at Dunstaffenage castle and Chapel. This is an impressive castle built in 1275 on a huge rock overlooking the Firth of Lorn. in 1309 it was captured by Robert The Bruce. In 1746, it was a temporary prison for Flora MacDonald, the heroine who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after the failure of the 1746 Jacobite Rebellion.
From there we passed through Oban on to cross the Atlantic ocean at the Atlantic Bridge near on Seill Island.
Photos are of Bridge, Chapel and castle
and Ironworks.
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