The Loch Fyne Light Show started with a distinct softening and warming of the light quality. We picked up cameras to watch as the sun sank through a cloudbank over the Kintyre shore.
Donny walked to a vantage point on a nearby rock rib to take some video - you can see Donny's film about our trip on his YouTube Channel here.
I joined Donny to get a view with no rocks in the foreground and was rewarded with this lovely path of sunlight beaming across Loch Fyne.
I spent a good twenty minutes just taking it all in; the last two years have seen few trips due to Covid restrictions and work pressures....it was so good just to "be" in the outdoors again, in the moment with a lovely sunset.
The sun dipped below the Kintyre hills and the sky put on a final flourish of gorgeous light....just superb.
As Donny and I wandered back over to join Raymond and Allan at our camp site the light show faded to a pastel finish, but there was one last and beautiful element to come.
After sunset the pale, ethereal light was as gorgeous as the sunset had been, though in a completely different way. My photographic skills don't do the light quality any justice whatsoever, the softness and opacity of a calm evening. It's this changing "Solas" (light) which really makes a day.
The temperature dropped after sunset and we got our fire, built well below the Spring high water line, lit and away.
Contained by a few big logs, it soon built a very satisfactory heat with remarkably little refuelling required due to the lack of wind. We sat around and enjoyed after-dinner treats and the odd dram - life seemed particularly agreeable on this Fyne evening!
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