Seals and dolphins

Today we left the Big Sand behind, but not before some pictures of the film set equipment. Is was not for Outlander, but a Mazda car. 

Mazda promotion

After that we got on the road towards Ullapool, hoping to be able to book a whale watching trip from there.

The road alternated along the coast and inland. Views varied so much, one moment we were looking at the sea, one minute later it felt like we were somewere in the stone age. 

Driving through these rough lands I remembered a story a Scotsman once told me about the beginning of Scotland; It was at the seventh day, when God just finished creating the world. His hands all dirty from making land, rocks and mountains. He sat down overlooking his creation. Then he shook the dirt and rocks off his tired hands, and where these rocks and dirt fell down is what we now call Scotland. Driving through the mountains today, passing the An Teallach, the Shurr Mor and Beinn Dearg it was very easy to believe that what this man told me is true.

In Drumchork we stopped to visit the Loch Ewe distillery, said to be the smallest distillery of Scotland. It took some searching before we found it, just to find out that it was closed.

Loch Ewe distillery

At the end of the A832, just before turning up the road towards Ullapool, we stopped over to do a little hike. Or more a strolll, to the Falls of Meassach. It was a nice, but well prepared walk.

View from the suspension bridge

Natural wooden bench. All in one piece

In Ullapool we first went to the tourist information to find out if we could do a whale watching trip from here. It was posible, but the chance of seeing whales is not too big. But right after that they told us that this week they spotted about 40 dolphins one day and some orca’s the other say. Very uncommon, but so is the weather so who knows we’re lucky.

Tanguy immediately called the company and they have a place for us tomorrow. So we decided to stay at the local campsite. But first we did some shopping at Tesco, the first proper supermarket since a couple of days. We bought a lamb leg for the bbq and then went to the campsite. We found a nice spot at the end off the campsite along the pebble beach. When we were having a gin tonic some seals came by, and shortly after that we think we saw dolphins, but it could also been orca’s 😂.  Either way it was great. I prepared the leg of lamb on the bbq while Tanguy was looking for more seals.

View from the camp site

Riley for sale 

Preparing the lamb

Ready for cooking

Liane looking for seals

Two seals 40m away from our camper

More seals or....?

The lamb 80min later

We started diner outside but the midges drove us into Tos very quickly. So we finished our meal inside.
While we were enjoying the lamb the sun set, time for a picture.

Sunset

We ended our meal with coffee and whisky.

Cheers!