{"id":20089,"date":"2015-08-28T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T05:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20089"},"modified":"2015-08-26T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:24:24","slug":"loch-lomond-2015-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/loch-lomond-2015-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Loch Lomond 2015 – Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a night of pouring rain and no sleep I got up early and had a coffee and breakfast under our new awning. I had planned to take an early morning walk up Ben Lomond but seeing as the weather had been so terrible overnight and I didn’t have all of my proper walking gear with me I decided that it probably wasn’t a good idea. Instead I sat there as the rain eased off, noting that many other tents in the campsite were completed flooded and their inhabitants had given up somewhere in the night and were now all sat in their cars waiting to leave when the campsite gates opened at 7am.<\/p>\n

Rowardennan<\/h2>\n

I actually managed to snooze in the chair for a few minutes I think before Anna joined me for a second breakfast. The rain had stopped now and the sun was coming out as we jumped in the car and headed off to Rowardennan at the foot of Ben Lomond. I might not have been able to walk up it this morning so we though we may as well have a look at the foot of it. As elsewhere, the views here out across Loch Lomond were stunning and the weather was now much more suitable for an assualt on the summit so there were lots of walkers about.<\/p>\n

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Loch Lomond Views<\/p><\/div>\n

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West Highland Way<\/p><\/div>\n

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Memorial<\/p><\/div>\n

I couldn’t head off up the hill now though as we had made arrangements to have brunch with Cameron and his family and then all head out for a walk.<\/p>\n

Queens’ View and The Whangie<\/h2>\n

In the end the brunch bit was cancelled and we met Cameron, Jackie and Eva at a car park at the base of the Queen’s View and The Whangie. It was now a glorious day, sunny, hot with a gentle breeze. Just right for an easy walk up to the Queens’ View and around to The Whangie. The views weren’t quite as good as they could have been thanks to the haze, but it was a pleasant walk and we stopped at The Whangie to explore the rocks here. The Whangie is a big cleft in the rocks formed by glacial plucking during the ice age and is now a popular climbing spot.<\/p>\n\n\t\t