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.
This post is a little out of sequence as I had not edited the video at the time, so this video captures some aerial footage of Castle Stalker and some images of Eilean Donan castle as we travelled between North Ledaig and Loch Greshornish.
There is no drone footage of Eilean Donan as drone flying is not allowed between the hours of 09:00 am and 6:00 pm.
So whilst we still have European travel restrictions our summer adventure is travelling through some of the Scottish West coast – with the first stop being North Ledaig, Oban. We’ve been here many times over the years and were lucky to get a sea front pitch on this visit. A beautiful sea view with stunning sunsets.
We had a long weekend at the Camping and Caravanning Club site at Culzean Castle near Maybole, Scotland. We haven’t been here before yet it’s only about an hour’s drive from home. The CCC is a relatively small site with friendly wardens and beautiful views over the sea. We were lucky to get a pitch at the front, with views of Arran, the Holy Isle and the Ailsa Craig.
The campsite is adjacent to the Culzean Castle estate. You can walk there from the site in around 15 minutes.
If you watch the video to the end you can enjoy the stunning sunset.
So we decided to sell our Hymer 640 primarily due to lockdown, as the European travel restrictions mean we will be touring the Scottish Highlands instead of Europe and we felt the Hymer was too large for what we will be doing. So we’ve bought a Fiat Ducato campervan and had our first weekend away in Moffat.
We are now looking forward to touring the Scottish Highlands in the summer, and then touring Europe when that’s allowed.
We also have the advantage that we can keep our campervan on our drive and so we plan on getting away more often now.
Captured some aerial views of the Esk estuary, the village and the yachts moored whilst flying my drone. I flew over to this area to escape the Oyster Catchers.
McNaughts On Tour 