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.
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.
The view from our pitch,Stunning beach with Ben Eighe in the background – captured on Mavic Mini
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.
Ben Eighe, Loch Maree and Kinlochewe CMC site,
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.
CMC Kinlochewe campsite
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.
Castle Stalker, Appin from DJI Mavic MiniCastle Stalker, Appin from DJI Mavic MiniCastle Stalker, Appin from DJI Mavic MiniEilean Donan castle
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 view from our back doors,
The campsite is adjacent to the Culzean Castle estate. You can walk there from the site in around 15 minutes.