Plan B not needed.

This year's gallant party counted nine and we traveled up in three cars on the morning of Saturday 27th. All made good time until reaching the A9 just short of Ballinluig where a minibus had made contact with two cars and partially blocked the road. Kenny et al lost about an hour here, Paul et al, traveling just behind Kenny, were forewarned and managed to divert, while Scott and Cian ploughed in regardless and lost over two and a half hours. Paul paid a heavier price a little later on when his car started to overheat and he had to be 'recovered' on the back of a tow-truck to Tongue, during heavy rain storms to be, hopefully, repaired at a local garage while we were on the island.

Allan, Bob, Kenny, Alex, Colin, Paul, Cian, Scott, Gerry - the 'Class of 2014'

Sunday morning dawned a little damp. It was too hot to wear waterproofs but rained a little to hard not too. On reaching Skerray Jean, with son Andy, were all fired up ready to go and two crossings were made on millpond conditions.
As we knew beforehand the steps to the island had been washed away due to winter storms and so we were prepared for a beach landing. However, things on the jetty were not as bad as first thought as a convenient rock lent itself to some fairly easy free-climbing in order to get on top of those steps that did remain After that it was just strategic positioning of bodies and a hand-over-hand daisy chain to transfer the luggage up onto the island. We had arrived for 2014.

The typical camp-site view