When we have places as beautiful as this in our own home country, why would we not be proud and want to care for it?Even in places like this people leave behind their rubbish, in many different forms. Why? I'm not sure I'll ever really understand it.
We just came back from visiting Findhorn in the North East of Scotland. This country is so utterly beautiful I don't why anyone would want to go anywhere else! It was freezing, but that is what made this day soo special. It was just Leo, Willow hound and I, and this entire beach.
We drove through Findhorn village and past the community there. They have this huge roundhouse as a meditation space. It inspired me to carry on with my own meditation practice.
Speechless.
We spent two weeks wild camping in Scotland - Knoydart and then Glen Nevis.
The knoydart-foundation
The walkout. It was impossible to leave this place. Absolutely striking. I have never seen such abundant beaches and perfect views! We ended up lounging around here longer than we really should have. We still had the walkout to do (three and a half to 4 hours) just to get to the car, then it would be another hour and a half to two hours drive out to the main roads. We had to get up to Glen Nevis before it got too dark for the next Wild Camp.
This place managed to let us forget all of that and linger and play in the water and sleep in the sun.
We stopped here to look back in to Knoydart. Ladhar Bheinn is the hill you can see in the distance on the left of the picture. Scorching weather for the walkout. No shade or wind. It was almost as tricky for me as the walk in. The walk out took about three and a half hours. Because the weather and views had been so amazing we were running very late. In the end we decided to camp at Kinloch Hourn in their make shift camp site - which was lovely actually - and head off for Glen Nevis the next day.
Watching this storm coming towards us was pretty exciting. Willow snoutyhound didn't think it was a good idea to head for it though. This picture is her turning round and refusing to go in the direction of the storm! Sensible dog.When the storm hit it was pretty intense. The good thing was though that storms have an energy that I really feed off, so I went a bit faster than my usual snail pace!
Steall waterfall. The UK's second highest waterfall, with a sheer drop of 120m. The very last wild camp of our 2 week Scotland trip. It was quite a busy place but that seemed to add to the magic when everyone left and it was just us for the night. The water from this waterfall was the best water I have ever tasted. Really pure. So wonderful in fact we filled as many of our water containers as we could physically carry to take some home. Fabulous!
The most beautiful place I have ever been to. We spent a week exploring and wild camping in one of the UK's last area's of (almost) wilderness.
We found three of the best camp spots ever, which will remain a closely guarded secret! Not because I don't want anyone else to go there, but because I don't want to deny anyone the joy of finding them for themselves!
