Harriers Island Bagging in Loch Lomond

Billy and Kenny took a pair of Harriers out of their natural environment at the weekend to go kayaking on Loch Lomond (I would have been wary about going out to the middle of the loch in case Billy and Kenny were out to seek revenge for the fact that we never let them forget a certain hill relay in Fife!) Pictures of the weekend are here.
Alan

Here is the full report from Billy.
Harriers Island Bagging on Loch lomond.10/11 Aug 2013
The long planned trip to Loch Lomond finally materialised as Eddie and Jim presented themselves at the EEKC kayak club lockup to be "decked out" with the appropriate equipment on saturday morning. If you see the photos from the trip please note that they are beautifully colour co-ordinated with matching bouyancy aids and sea kayaks. This was a pure fluke and nothing to do with Kenny "Gok Wan", so ladies if you volunteer for this at some point do not naturally expect this to be a normal occurrence.
Saturday we launched from Balmaha at which point Jim stated he wanted to visit as many islands as possible, Ah well ! we aim to please so the trip became the equivalent  of Munro bagging ie Island bagging. I think they took it a bit far as they landed on anything that had a strip of land 2 kayaks wide and at least 1 stunted bush/tree even when it was not on the map at all and certainly not named but once they started we could not stop them.
The day progressed well the sun shone and even though there was a fairly stiff breeze both "novices" looked fairly relaxed and at times looked as if they were enjoying themselves, I am sure the photos bear this out. As a side trip we visited the Loch Lomond Championship Golf Course attacking it from the water side and bagging a few golf balls. How Jim spotted these is a minor miracle, it must be his finely tuned golfers instinct for lost balls.
 A few islands were bagged and approx 7 miles paddled, oh and with lunch on an island another stipulation made before we set out. (The demands some people make !!)
Saturday evening was spent at Sallochy Wood campsite on a lochside pitch, was was sufficiently far away from the wardens that they could not see our fluid intake during the evening which was possibly breaking one of the camp site rules. 
We stayed up  past our normal bedtimes to check the skies for a meteor shower which had been forecast for that evening, and were rewarded with one big sighting of at least 2 secs, but impressive nerveless and one smaller of the blink and you miss it variety. 
All slept well despite the rain bouncing off the tents during the night.
Sunday we drove round to Luss and launched from there with even more islands to bagg. We even bagged a castle ( ok a small one , a very small one with only one window) but it is marked on the map. Lunch was on Inchmoan island which is meant to have a Wallaby population, we cannot confirm this as they stayed hidden obviously not fancying our "peices"
As a change from the normal posing pictures we tried for some "star jump" action pictures as perfected on Islay the previous weekend . Obviously not perfected by the deadly duo Eddie and Jim who look more look they are doing something else entirely !, nothing to do with the camera man's timing you understand.
After visiting the last island in the vicinity which was more or less directly opposite Luss we headed back directly into the wind.
The "novices" here showed how they had progressed over the weekend - they were " flying" I think they thought they were in an Aulhouse time tria lwith something to prove. No seriously they both looked good and did very well considering this was their first time on moving water , no tides obviously but plenty wind to whip up some waves and cause a wee bit excitement especially when they were broadside on on. If you want to make them feel superior ask them what a skeg is . 
Finally as the sun came as we got to shore in Luss they decided to get wet (that is Eddie did, Jim naturally had to follow or be called a wimp), Kenny and felt we had the T-shirts for this and left it to them to  provide a bit of entertainment for the people on the beach. I think it was actually appreciated as Eddie did ask some people if they had been entertained , they said yes but did not put anything in his hat.
Anyway it was a great weekend and if this "wets" your appetite for some of the same then you only have to say.