Two weeks spent in Wester Ross, in Midtown near Poolewe.
We were up and out by 9:30am. We had a short stop at Asda just outside Carlisle – filling up with diesel, buying a few provisions, a snack for lunch and taking the dogs for a short walk in the small nature reserve at the end of Chandler Way. We arrived home at about 3pm.…
We were up, packed up and out of the lodge just before the 10am check out time. We said goodbye to Alisdair who looked a bit tired after the trip away to Ruairdhri’s graduation ceremony in Aberdeen. We went up the road for one last walk on Firemore sands and to see if there was…
The weather forecast for today was pretty poor so we had already decided that we would chill out and also avoid spending time in the car given the mileage that we had to cover over the next two days. We went for a brief walk on the beach at Camas na Muic (Firemore) and got…
After a false start of parking at the Beinn Eighe visitor centre car park we drove the short way back to the car part at the start of the woodland and mountain trails. Stocked up with jumpers, waterproofs, drinks, lunch and the dogs coats and towels we headed off up the mountain trail. The start…
We made up a packed lunch and walked from the lodge on the path towards Rua Reigh lighthouse. Beyond the road and track the path became very rocky, boggy and uneven. It was harder work than we’d anticipated so we only made it about half way to the end of the peninsula, where we stopped…
Ady had put her patch on yesterday evening so we were all set for the boat trip. We were joined by 8 other passengers on the old ship’s life raft which had been converted for the tours. Richard our skipper was very knowledgeable and imparted a lot of information as we took the short trip…
We decided to have a day chilling out at the lodge. Plus it was either raining, misty or “a bit dreich†for most of the day. We heard back from Jane at the glass bottom boat tour and booked on the 12pm sailing for Tuesday. In the evening we went to the beach at Camas…
We headed down to the harbour for the 12pm glass bottom boat tour, but found that the other two who were booked on the tour had cancelled. We gave it a few minutes by wandering around the harbour to see if anyone else turned up. They didn’t so the tour was cancelled and instead we…
We headed down to Gairloch harbour and enquired about a trip on the glass bottom boat. We booked on to the 12pm sailing for Sunday. We then went and had a look around the Gairloch museum, leaving the dogs in the car. The museum has various exhibits covering the history of the area, from crofting,…
Plan A for today was to visit the National Trust’s Inverewe Gardens, where the owner of Coille Bheag is the catering manager. However, when we got there we found that dogs are not allowed in the gardens so we opted for Plan B. We went back through Poolewe, on through Gairloch and up to Sands…