Day 41: Thursday 19th May 2022
A very tiring but good day. We did delay going to Skye until tomorrow due to the high winds. Instead, we decided to drive the van back to the Beinn Eighe NNR in order to complete the Mountain trail. This is a 4 mile, quite challenging route, as the booklet suggested 4-5 hours.
We took the shorter route to the reserve, and again it was very scenic and beautiful. There were a couple of tricky parts - it can be very hard to find a place to pull in on some of these roads when you know people are in a hurry to get past you, but most of the way was really nice.
We parked in the visitors centre, which unfortunately was actually 1.5 miles from the start of the walk! The walk was a brilliant one. The first 2km especially were trickier, as quite a few parts needed a climb over rocky areas, but phenomenal views across Loch Maree and the surrounding peaks.
We reached the summit of the Conservation Cairn, but the walk didn’t actually take us up to the summit of Beinn Eighe itself, as it is over 1000m high. I thought we were climbing this, so was a bit disappointed when I saw the path was not going that far up to any of the peaks here! (But relief too - we were getting a bit tired!)
The view down was great, especially to see a rainbow appear on the loch - definitely in the right place at the right time for that!! But due to the rain, it was challenging, and Mum slipped backwards twice which did shake her up a little bit, though luckily no bad injuries.
The walk back to the van seemed very long this time! We passed a cafe on the way back called Midge Bite! Looking it up online, it sounded really nice so wished we had stopped, but we were pretty tired so just wanted to get back. A great day though.
This has been quite an interesting campsite to stay at. The first night, there were quite a few bikers who were camping, and they all had personalised NC500 hoodies which looked great! Yesterday another Auto Sleeper Nuevo was parked next to ours (the same make though different year so slightly different model) - we haven’t seen another Nuevo yet. And tonight the campervan behind us are doing karaoke!! Thats a first for any campsite we have stayed on!!
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