The day started well with a beautiful sunrise from our campervan door. I captured some of the sunset from the beach.
We set off to visit the Mull of Galloway lighthouse and Scotland’s most Southerly point. The weather was great and this is a brilliant drive. Well worth the effort.
On the way back to the campsite we visited the harbour at Port Logan too.
The video below captures some of the drive, Mull of Galloway and Port Logan.
We are enjoying the sea view from our pitch whilst on a trip to Scotland’s most Southerly point, staying at Sands of Luce whilst we relax and explore some of the local area.
There is plenty of space on the beach, especially at low tide.
Wendy is enjoying a drink after a long walk on the beach.
The video below captures our time at Luce Bay.
This video captures the installation of a Dometic / Waeco CRX65 compressor fridge, replacing the Thetford N3112 three-way fridge. The Thetford fridge was just too sensitive to levelness and a little tempramental.
We installed the CRX65 with the Dometic controller. This supplies 24V dc to the fridge when 230V ac is present and detects when mains isn’t present supplying 12V from the leisure battery. I did think about wiring in some switches to manage this, but I think it is worth the extra £90 for the controller. It works well and is convenient.
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We have used aires across Europe and really enjoy using these. We’ve often wondered why we don’t have aires in the UK, especially with the growing popularity of campervans and motorhomes. This is our first time using Brit Stops (https://www.britstops.com/) and we did this at Metal Bridge Inn, near Carlisle.
We really enjoyed it here. It is very near the motorway and the train line isn’t too far away either. However, the road and rail noise we had read about wasn’t intrusive for us and we liked the convenience of the location. The staff at the Metal Bridge Inn are friendly and the food was lovely.
This Brit Stop is adjacent to the River Esk. There’s a narrow track along the river where you can walk your dogs.
As I said, the noise we read about wasn’t a problem for us. It certainly did not bother Pepsi sleeping in her usual spot in the cab
Nor Max sleeping…
We tried to capture the sunset in the video below. If you watch carefully you might catch a glimpse of the bat flying around…
On the home leg, we crossed the Ballachulish bridge and stopped at Glencoe to fly our drone whilst trying to do justice to this stunning scenery. Then we continued to the Caravan and Motorhome Club site at Bunree.
There’s some timelapse footage looking towards the west bank of Loch Linnhe and some footage of the Corran ferry from the air, and the campsite.
We visited Plockton, with Wendy tolerating the single-track roads. It’s really quite beautiful here as captured in the video below. On the way back we travelled over the Skye bridge again to take some photos of the bridge and Kyleakiin. The video below captures thiis.
After our time at Sands, we travelled South to Morvich staying at the Camping and Caravanning Club site. The scenery here is beautiful and it’s a nice site with friendly welcoming wardens. We are spending time here as a base and will travel around a little.
The video below captures the Morvich campsite, Manuela’s bakery, Kyle of Lochalsh and Eilean Donan Caste. The weather has been beautiful, interspersed with six hours of torrential rain.
We returned to Eilean Donan to film with our drone one evening as drone flying isn not permitted between 09:00 am and 6:00 pm, nor when evening wedding receptions are happening – so we needed to plan this and were lucky with the weather.
After a short drive from Kinlochewe to Loch Gairloch, some on single track roads, this footage captures Sands campsite, aerial views of the beach, Longa Island and an attempt at capturing the sunrise. Max and I had a 04:00 start to capture the sunrise so he features in the video too, running along the beach.
We stayed at the Caravan and Motorhome Club site at Kinlochewe and spent some time walking part of the path towards Ben Eighe and at the Loch Maree visitor centre.
The CMC campsite here is pleasant although it is hard standing everywhere, with large grey gravel. There is virtually no grass. Otherwise it is quite pleasant and tranquil.
The path towards Ben Eighe starts just outside the campsite, beyond the adjacent petrol station. It is an easy walk, at least as far as I walked, and the scenery is beautiful. I was luck with the brilliant weather.
The visitor centre at Loch Maree has plenty of information on the area. The loch is stunning with a pebble beach,
We spent two days at Kinlochewe and then travelled to Sands at Loch Gairloch.
Travelling from North Ledaig to Loch Greshornish in Skye, we stopped off at Castle Stalker in Appin and then Eilean Donan castle so this post captures these.
Then the CCC campsite at Loch Greshornish in Skye
Took a trip to the Old Man of Storr hoping to fly my drone. It wqs cloudy at the summit as you will see in the video, and quite tricky to fly. However, as I headed back down conditions improved and I got some aerial footage.
McNaughts On Tour 