Rowardennan to Inverarnan

We packed our cases and headed down to breakfast. I had a vegetarian Scottish breakfast as I wanted to try vegan haggis but it wasn’t that great.

After taking a quick photos of Loch Lomond from our hotel, we headed off.

Just as we left Rowardennan I spotted this sign

We walked through some gorgeous woodland.

At a fork in the path we decided to take the high route over Ben Lomond rather than the low route, as we had been told it was slightly shorter. We had some good views of the Loch again.

Loch Lomond has a surface area of 73km2 and has 24 islands. It is 36.4km long and around 1.8km wide and is the largest lake in Great Britain.

Eventually our high path joined up again with the low path.

The woods we walked through varied between pine forests and deciduous woodland.

Around half way into our walk we reached Inversnaid which has a lovely waterfall that you walk across.

We stopped here to eat our lunch and try some more local beer.

It was actually really comfortable and we had to force ourselves to leave and continue walking.

From Inversnaid you could look across the lake and see the Loch Sloy Hydro Electric Scheme which is the largest hydro electric power station in the UK. It is generally in standby mode,ready to generate electricity if there is a surge in demand.

After a short while wecame across Rob Roy’s cave. Rob McGregor was an outlaw in the 1700s and this cave is where he hid.

We wandered through more woodlands before reaching Doune Bothy. The paths were not that easy to navigate as they were full of slippery stones and mud.

Doune Bothy is a little hut that is open to walkers and has areas to sleep and rest. However. When we tried to open the door to have a look inside it was locked.

From the Bothy we followed the path down to the Loch.

We then climbed up again to the col (a path between two mountain ridges) and got our last views looking back over Loch Lomond.

We walked through Beinglas Farm and actualky caught some sunshine on one of the mountains.

From here it was just a short walk to the Drovers Inn where we were staying for the night.

This is quite a unique hotel, restaurant and bar, lots of different rooms and lots of stuffed animals.

After a quick shower and change we went to the bar for dinner, a delicious venison casserole with some local beer.

Today we walked just over 28km.

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