For morning activities the children were split into the reds and blues. The reds went kayaking on the loch whilst the blue team learned how to forage for food and make fire.
The kayaks were out on the water for about three hours. They toured the loch, visiting the mussel farm and the Marie Louise, a boart which has circumnavigated the world several times.
The firestarters learned about knots and how to make a shelter, how to find clean water and also how to identify three edible plants: sorrel, scurvy grass and bog myrtle. They also collected cotton grass to use as kindling. They cooked dough balls over the fire .... mussels are off the menu as there was an algal bloom last week. Just before lunch they chopped up some smelly fish to put in the lobster pots which will be put out in the loch.
After eating their packed lunches, the groups swapped over.
