Day 1824 wreaking havoc in the highlands!

😆😆 Helen’s daughter asking if we were having fun “wreaking havoc in the highlands” and I thought that’s what I have to call the blog tonight. 😆

How lucky were we?

Helen planned this trip 6 months ago and I checked the weather last week and decided we had to make the most of it!

We woke up in The Old Schoolhouse in Arisaig this morning and had a lovely breakfast.

We got croissants, pain au chocolat and toast as well. So lovely. Such a great place to stay. Bookable on Airbnb.

We set up off the coast to the Silver Sands of Morar.

The tide was out so it’s not quite as pretty but still dramatic.

These beaches are like the Caribbean.

This boat is Davy Diver and has been moored here for as long as I can remember.

The sand is soft and feels like icing sugar. It’s so white.

Positively tropical.

We got chatting to a lovely couple in a campervan who know who I was from Tartan Camper’s?!?!? Random!!

We then jumped back in the car and headed to the next stop, Camusdarach Beach. You have a lovely walk through the most stunning yellow gorse bushes.

These are just in bloom and the yellow against the green and blue is just stunning.

And then we get this….

I mean… look at this…..

We’re on a tight time schedule as Helen has to be at Glasgow Airport for 4pm.

We get to Traigh Beach and realise it’s 11.33am already! Panic 😆

Only one photo and we’re back on the road… stopping here on the way down.

Our next stop is the famous Glenfinnan Viaduct, made famous by Harry Potter. If you zoom in you can just about make it out. We didn’t have time to get any closer.

This is the Glenfinnan Monument at the top of Loch Sheil.

Here’s a better one of the viaduct.

And after about 10-15 minutes we are back on the road again….

This is Ben Nevis taken from the Corpach Basin.

Not many people ever get to see the top of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the UK! Craig and I have climbed that!

It doesn’t look as big as it is! It’s very difficult to photograph.

We drove back up the road a bit to get some reflections on the loch that we’d seen earlier. It was worth it.

The drive home was so beautiful, not a cloud in the sky at all. It’s a stunning drive at the best of times. Mountains and lochs all the way. Every mountain was fully visible. The colours were stunning.

It’s probably one of the best drives in Scotland.

We’ve driven 525 miles this weekend.

It was worth every single minute of it. If I’d changed anything I’d have come back from Skye earlier yesterday to make more use of the beaches around Morar and Arisaig, but we weren’t to know that.

We’ve had the most amazing trip. You know when you are making lifetime memories and this was one of them.

Scotland is the most beautiful country at the best of times, but to see it in the pure blue sky and beautiful sunshine, with bright yellow gorse blooming everywhere, it’s very special. Helen has also been the best travel buddy and co-pilot and I look forward to our next adventures in August.

I’m sure I’ll share more of these photos as there are hundreds more (as usual!)

Back to work tomorrow…. Boo….. 😆😆

Stay safe everyone ☀️☀️☀️