Day 39: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Another travelling day today. We were much luckier with the weather today than our last big travelling day, which was good.
We set off around 9.30. The route took us through Ullapool and Braemore, then up around the coast past Dundonnell where the road was surrounded by mountains. We stopped in a parking place to take a photo in Achnasheen near Laide as it was very beautiful, before continuing on to stop again briefly near Poolewe.
Also on the route was Gairloch, which looked a nice town with a good beach. But we can’t stop everywhere unfortunately!
Along the way, we spotted Victoria Falls, so did decide to stop there for a break and a little walk. It was busy there but nice to see the waterfalls.
The road continued mostly alongside Loch Maree before passing Beinn Eighe. We did stop here briefly, but would like to return if we can, to do one of the walks as the area looks stunning. However, as we still had a bit further to drive until our next campsite, we decided to continue on.
The next part of the journey was challenging and long, due to its single track road. We took the slightly longer route as we wanted to travel the scenic way (although every way is the scenic way!!). It was a nice route, but just a couple of issues. There were quite a lot of cars travelling the other way, so a lot of pulling into passing places, which gets tiring. We also unfortunately have a little bash on the side of Marvin due to having knocked past a barrier when trying to move out of the way over the cattle grid to let another vehicle pass. So that was a shame, but it does not matter really - we are safe and all fine. As a friend has said, ‘it adds character to Marvin’!
We arrived at the Wee Campsite shortly afterwards, and settled in to our pitch. We explored the village a little but were quite tired so went back to the van. We are due to travel to Skye on Thursday but now there are very high winds forecast, so we are rethinking our plans to be on the safe side, as crossing the bridge could be difficult.
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