Top of the locks

We're climbing the locks: Kytra and Cullochy, then Loch Oich. There's Laggan, then Loch Lochy and we're at the top.

Going down: Gairlochy Lock. On the VHF radio it sounds like the boats are all calling up "Clikkety-ckackety Lock". A grey and rainy day, right in the face. Now we know we're really and truly in Scotland.

We arrive at Banavie at the top of "Neptune's Staircase". At 15:30 we take the next five locks down.
And who do we see here! It's "Bengari II". And in the boat, old sailing friend and train engineer, Bengt, fra Bergen. We have good memories of sailing in Shetland in 2003 and meeting "Bengari II" with its crew of two. This time Bengt is alone, between crews, and we take a nostalgic nightcap.

And relive and exaggerate old times.