Scottish Trip

The following was submitted by Christine and Nick.

Our week should have started on the Arete meet to Duddon Valley but we had a set back with the 12v functioning or our campervan fridge. We therefore had a late start on Saturday afternoon and decided to head straight to Scotland.

We managed to get the last ferry to Mull and camped at the side of the ferry port. We had mixed weather for our first munro of the week up Ben More. The views were intermittent but good over Loch Scridain and the Ross of Mull.

Ben More

We had good views the following day of Sea Eagles fishing and a Golden Eagle before the ferry across to Ardnamurchan and a night by the lighthouse of Scotland’s most Westerly point.
We had great scenic views the following day during our drive around Ardnamurchan peninsula and up to Mallaig via Lochailort. After the ferry to Skye and drive up to Skye bridge we reached Glen Sheil and the campsite at Morvich.
We did two munros from Morvich. The first was A' Ghlas-bheinn from which we got good views of the surrounding munros.

Ascending A' Ghlas-bheinn.

We then climbed Beinn Sgritheall reached by an impressive drive over the Ratagan Pass.

Beinn Sgritheall

We had a further day birding and were lucky that a Common Rosefinch (which is not common at all in Britain) had a decided to turn up at Nethy Bridge.