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Mull - west coast Scotland - May 17

AndyCook

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We have been away for 6 days exploring West Coast of Scotland.
On Mull for 4 nights with great weather, some sea breeze at times. but good sunbathing to be had too.
Stayed at Fidden Farm Campsite opposite Iona.
went for walks over to Island of Erraid, - bonny price charlies landed here in 1715 during Jacobite rebellion.
Also the Stevensons based themselves here building lighthouses and extracting granite.
Did some sea fishing off rocks, but caught nothing...
revisited my geology undergrad mapping area.
we had been to Iona before, so didnt bother visiting this time.

Then we went throgh Glencoe to Bridge of Orchy and camped here a night, then onto Callendar and Dunblane and home via Glenshee and Braemar

Doune Castle (Castle Leoch in Outlander, also used in Game of Thrones and Monty Python)

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Fidden Farm campsite on Ross of Mull
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Fidden Farm
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Fidden Farm
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walking across to Erraid at low water
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Erraid - amazing sandy sound between the island and Mull
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Knockvolagan farm
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Knockvolagan farm
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breezy at times
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view from tent across to Iona
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looking back to campsite from beach
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Erraid from campsite
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Iona and Abbey
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Camspite from north
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Driving across Mull
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Ben More on Mull
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Lunch spot on Ross of Mull
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Eating Out - BBQ dinner
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campsite beach
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Tentipi and Hilux
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food
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Camp
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enjoying a dram
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man and his dog
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again
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another BBQ dinner
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evening sunshine and Jet
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Ballachulish slate mine near Glencoe
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Ballachulish lunch spot
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Bridge of Orchy
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camp
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river walk
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riverside camp
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oopps - photos out of order - Mull camp
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Ardanalish Beach
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This Bay was my home for a month in 1994 - camped on field at edge of beach in a tent and spent day mapping the granite margin as a geology student
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Ardanalish on Mull
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Paps of Jura
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Ardanalish - used this phonebox a lot in 1994 when camped here for a month mapping
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Uisken
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Some great photos andy. I'll have a better looking the lap top later.
 
Brilliant, wonderful photos Andy, and what a beautiful place. I've been to Mull and Iona, but on almost every visit to Scotland, it was July, and I always wished it had been earlier in the year, I think May is the best time to be there.

We had one visit to the west coast at early January, and it was cold but stunningly beautiful, the air is clearer then (for photos especially) and the weather is more predictable.

Both July trips were very rainy and miserable!

Thanks for posting, brought back lovely memories. :thumbup:
 
Tent cool
How was the fishing?

Fishing was bad, spinning with lures and feathers, didn't get a single bite.
Got some nice mackerel fishing off rocks on achill island last autumn
 
Thanks Clive, yes it seems every year, at some point in May there is 1-2 weeks of great weather on west. Whilst where I live on East in Aberdeenshire we get plagued by a cold easterly wind and haar (low cloud) off North Sea. So we try and escape to west for long weekends where it is usually sunny and 10degC warmer
 
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Looks like you had a great trip Andy, some amazing places with some brilliant weather thrown in!
 
Stonking weather and Photo's Andy, it all looks deserted up there with hardly anyone around, was it?
 
Stonking weather and Photo's Andy, it all looks deserted up there with hardly anyone around, was it?

There were more motorhomes around than I expected, but many retired couples who had seen the settled weather forecast and hit the road.

Fionnphort village was busy with day trippers visiting Iona.
Roads only busy when the big ferry from Oban had just docked and unloaded a load of cars.

But the beaches only had a couple of other people on them or none at all
It is supposedly a lot busier in the school holidays
 
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