30th Sept 2014
The title is just a bit of fun but I've got this reputation that when we go on holiday in our motor home the weather will always be good but it hasn't to been too difficult this year to find sunny warm weather because of our glorious summer.
My Scottish preference this year continues with another visit in our motor home to the western side of Scotland around the Southern Western Highlands and the Isle of Mull.
Our first stop after an overnight stay in Moffat was Inveraray on Loch Fyne
The main street
We stayed for 3 nights on the Caravan Club Site at Oban a beautiful location over looking the sea but just too big.
Rabbits around all the pitches..
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Pounds of wild Blackberry.....
..... and beautiful sunsets
A boat trip up Loch Etive to view the Common Seals
The small overflow channel of a past glacier
Port Appin..... from here we caught the ferry across the Lynn of Lorne to the Isle of Lismore
The jetty at Port Ramsay
A walk around the northern shores of Lismore
Grass-of-Parnassus
North of the Isle of Mull........the Ardnamurchan Peninsula
Resipole ......this is a beautiful site on the shores of loch Sunart
The Swallows gathering on the overhead wires, the following morning they left for their long journey to Africa
Beinn Resipol 2775 ft that's our goal today
Your free to roam in Scotland so there are only a few indistinct paths
The summit
Loch Shiel
Views looking towards Fort William
To prove that I was there
The long decent
Crowberry
Clubmoss
The western end of the Ardamurchan Peninsula .....Sanna Bay
The Cullin mountains on the Isle of Skye in the distance
On an information board it clearly shows the rim of an old volcano which was last active 55 million years ago
The low rim of the old volcano
The Cullins on Skye
Ardamurchan Point the most western on the mainland of Britain
Overnight stay in a garden belonging to the house with electric hookup
Ferry from Ormsaigmore to Tobermory on the Isle of Mull
Tobermory
Sea Eagles at Loch Na Keal
Sea Eagle
On camera monitor
Wild Camp over night views from the motor home
7 hours sail to Staffa and the Treshnish isles
Staffa (Fingal's Cave) made famous by Medelssons Hebrides Overture
Basalt Rock Columns
Landing on Lunga
Atlantic seal Pups
Leaving the Treshnish Islands
Overnight wild camp by Loch Na Keal before driving along its southern shore to Fionnport the south west corner of Mull
The camp site at Fionnport we stayed here for 2 nights over looking the beach
This morning were off to the island of Iona
Iona Abbey
The highest point about 350 ft
A few shots of Iona's stunning beaches
Uisken
Ben More 3170 ft
Travelling up the Island to Loch Buie
Loch Buie wild camp location
Robin, Hooded Crow and Heron around our wild camp
The unmanned old post office....just put your money in the box
The wildness of this remote loch
Our final night on Mull at Craignure
Early Morning on the Sound Of Mull
The ferry to the mainland
Bunree Caravan Club Site near North Ballachulish
The Pap of Glencoe
The wonderful early autumn light in Glencoe made us linger for a while to soak up this impressive scenery
At the head of Glencoe the terrain changes and opens out to the wild expanse of Rannock Moor, here the mountain called Buachaille Etive Mor dominates the head of the glen
At Glencoe ski centre the temperature at 3600ft is 4.2 degrees and there are still a few patches of snow that have lasted all summer
The unmistakably landscape of the last ice age
South of Glasgow heading south for England the hills of the Southern Uplands are covered by more than 100 wind generators
Footnote.
When we started our holiday we noticed a newly woven spiders web on the passenger side wing mirror we hadn't the heart to destroy it. The spider was behind the mirror so along it came with us on our travels. periodically it came out to do minor repairs to its web and it stayed with us for the whole 2 weeks . We covered 980 miles arriving home almost a week ago and the spider's still there, the web is still in good shape.
The web on our 14th night at Moffat Caravan & Camping club site
The source of Pendle Water
Long shadows difficult to avoid
Looking towards the Bowland Fells
Fading Light by 2:30 pm
Back down via Ogden Clough before the light goes
