Isla de Bute y peninsula de Cowal - Ruta de los tres ferris
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 51.9 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,198 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 2,169 ft
- Max elevation
- 855 ft
- TrailRank
- 25
- Min elevation
- -179 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 5 hours 41 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1867
- Uploaded
- February 8, 2019
- Recorded
- April 2017
near Rothesay, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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Itinerary description
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First route as such for me on Scottish soil. Fixed gear bike.
We take the train in Glasgow to take us to the Wemyss Bay station, located between this town and Skelmorlie. The train station is located in the same complex where you take the ferry that crosses us to the island of Bute. Comfortable ferry, with heating and cafeteria.
Once we leave the boat we finally start the tour pedaling. Soon after starting a soft rain begins to fall that will not leave us until we get home, but instead we enjoyed the magic of these green and humid landscapes. We go to the north of the island through cattle farms, passing only by one population, Port Bannatyne, to be able to connect with the peninsula that we can see on the other side of the water on our right. The road takes us direct to the point where a small ferry picks up passengers to cross to the town of Colintraive, in fact the road ends at the ferry terminal, without any parking and with a small covered canopy to wait (as if someone were to go there walking ...). As if it were a bridge with a traffic light, people queue up with their cars at the end of the same road (curious ...)
We take the ferry that crosses us the scarce 700 meters between lands and we return route. The A886 road, in very good conditions, takes us to Clachan of Glendaruel, where we decided to leave the main road and make the journey along a parallel secondary road that immerses us in a rural environment although it penalizes with numerous small ascents and descents. In Dunans Both roads meet again to undertake a small climb to jump a hill and take us back to the water of another arm of the estuaries that outline these northern coasts. This small "port" has barely 200 meters of altitude to climb in 6/7 km, but with the fixed-gear bike I thought it was the equivalent of a port of first XD
Once reached the northernmost point of the route, in the town of Strachur, we turn right to start the return along the A815 road that runs through the Loch Eck valley. The landscapes flood us with the view of continuous, and in this valley we are especially moved. Much is the distance traveled without seeing anyone, crossing only a small town ... only a car passes us from time to time. Emotions are hard to describe ...
we let ourselves be taken along the road south-southeast until we return to the gigantic estuary, to the city of Dunoon. Here we approach the third ferry (those that give name to the route), so that it returns us to the south shore, this time to the town of Gourock. There we made another connection with the train that returns us to Glasgow
The word to describe this route is "magical", no doubt.
We take the train in Glasgow to take us to the Wemyss Bay station, located between this town and Skelmorlie. The train station is located in the same complex where you take the ferry that crosses us to the island of Bute. Comfortable ferry, with heating and cafeteria.
Once we leave the boat we finally start the tour pedaling. Soon after starting a soft rain begins to fall that will not leave us until we get home, but instead we enjoyed the magic of these green and humid landscapes. We go to the north of the island through cattle farms, passing only by one population, Port Bannatyne, to be able to connect with the peninsula that we can see on the other side of the water on our right. The road takes us direct to the point where a small ferry picks up passengers to cross to the town of Colintraive, in fact the road ends at the ferry terminal, without any parking and with a small covered canopy to wait (as if someone were to go there walking ...). As if it were a bridge with a traffic light, people queue up with their cars at the end of the same road (curious ...)
We take the ferry that crosses us the scarce 700 meters between lands and we return route. The A886 road, in very good conditions, takes us to Clachan of Glendaruel, where we decided to leave the main road and make the journey along a parallel secondary road that immerses us in a rural environment although it penalizes with numerous small ascents and descents. In Dunans Both roads meet again to undertake a small climb to jump a hill and take us back to the water of another arm of the estuaries that outline these northern coasts. This small "port" has barely 200 meters of altitude to climb in 6/7 km, but with the fixed-gear bike I thought it was the equivalent of a port of first XD
Once reached the northernmost point of the route, in the town of Strachur, we turn right to start the return along the A815 road that runs through the Loch Eck valley. The landscapes flood us with the view of continuous, and in this valley we are especially moved. Much is the distance traveled without seeing anyone, crossing only a small town ... only a car passes us from time to time. Emotions are hard to describe ...
we let ourselves be taken along the road south-southeast until we return to the gigantic estuary, to the city of Dunoon. Here we approach the third ferry (those that give name to the route), so that it returns us to the south shore, this time to the town of Gourock. There we made another connection with the train that returns us to Glasgow
The word to describe this route is "magical", no doubt.
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