Continuing this extensive review of the Leica CL (Part 1 and Part 2), today saw a trip up to Garvie Bay and Achnahaird. The weather was poor, which is an understatement. The cottage was surely going to be ripped from its foundations last night as gales and heavy rain blew in, rapidly getting rid of the snow that came in blizzards yesterday. Changeable is the key word for the weather up here.Garvie Bay was a new location for me. Having scoured OS maps and Google Earth, it looked like a 700m walk would take us from the road to the shoreline. With no idea what to expect, we sloshed and splashed through soaking bogland and were delighted with what was at the end of our soggy walk.  Garvie Bay is rather like Yesnaby in Orkney. Its finely stratified sandstone results in excellent cliffs full of faults and cracks. The sea exploits these weaknesses to make stacks and gaps in the cliffs through which the sea smashes upwards.The soft light was quite well suited to the scene. In between getting rained and snowed and hailed on, we managed to scuttle about to fairly good effect. If you're going up this way, it is worth the slog in the bog to get to this spot.Onto the Leica CL. Today I'm going to talk about the handling dynamics of the camera. Firstly, I should point out that you don't feel "at one" with the CL in comparison to the Leica M10. The beauty of the M-series cameras is the seemingly direct mechanical connection you have with the inner workings of the camera. In reality, only the aperture ring on an M lens has any direct mechanical function. The shutter speed and ISO dials are just electronic wheels. But the feel is one of a direct connection because each control has one purpose only - to adjust the ISO, to adjust the shutter speed, or to adjust the aperture.On the CL it's a bit different. One moment a wheel is doing exposure compensation. The next moment it is adjusting the shutter speed, and then changing the camera mode. Another is changing lens aperture, then it's doing exposure compensation, then ISO.I think this is the main difference between the usability and "bonding" of the M-series cameras versus many others out there in the market. Personally, I prefer to avoid "soft controls" that are electronically configurable for exposure compensation, ISO, shutter speed and ISO.That being said, I am learning the ways of the CL. Typically I will have the CL in one of two modes. Either I'll have it on aperture priority with auto-ISO, in which case the right wheel will control aperture, and the left will control shutter speed. Or I'll have it in manual mode at a preset ISO suitable for the conditions, and the right wheel does aperture with the left doing shutter speed which is all very intuitive.Now I have my head around that setup, it becomes much simpler to use the CL, but there's no doubt that I don't feel as "at one" with it as I did with my M10, M240 or M9.Another thing that would be nice to have on the CL is GPS. Now, a GPS chip is a tiny little thing, consuming very little power these days. With the M10, the camera itself doesn't have GPS but the boil-like electronic viewfinder add-on does. If you can fit a GPS chip into that, why can't you put it into a nice camera like the Leica CL? I'd love to have my images tagged with the location - it makes things much easier working out where you've been and which shot belongs where.Anyway, moaning over, let's look at battery life again. Today was warmer than yesterday - it was 8C versus yesterday's depths of -9C. And the difference shows in the battery life. Yesterday I got just over 100 shots on a fully charged battery in the freezing cold with lots of live view, and leaving the camera to turn itself off after 2 minutes of lack of use. Today I took 138 pictures and still had had about 75% battery remaining. So that's a lesson for all you folks who want to go out in the cold.There's nothing like some really intensive use of a camera to "get to know it". Now I've familiarised myself with the controls, I'm now very much enjoying using the CL. It's a cracking little camera. The 18-56 lens is getting the most use by a long way. It's a fantastic lens which is as sharp as you like, with a very useful range. I haven't needed anything wider.Tomorrow possibly sees us heading right up to the far far north of Scotland. Or possibly not. More in Part 4.And finally here is a gallery of all (halfway decent) images from my 2018 Assynt trip: