It does start to rain but the train stops many times and I am able to glimpse many small towns along the way. Before the train reaches Oban I get up the courage to ask a Japanese lady if she is traveling to Earthwatch and Mull. It turns out she is Tomoko Shimura from Japan and is a member of this team. She speaks pretty good English and we sit together for the rest of the trip. Landing in Oban at noon I telephone the local library and ask to store our luggage while we look around the town.
Librarians are so nice world over.
We board the ferry at 4 p.m. and meet three other Earthwatch team members. The weather is clear and I sit on deck for a short time watching the beautiful coast line slip by. I take a picture of a castle but it is very far away. The road is very, very, very narrow and many times the bus stops and pulls to the side the let cars go by. We see some sheep and a few seals laying about on the beach.