We were planning to be camping in Dingwall this week – but family circumstances have postponed it for this year.
It did me a chance to replace all the elastic loop guys I had fitted to my tent – over the years the rubber had weakened. I also shortened the orange guy line something I had been meaning to for a couple of years.
May be there will be thunder tonight?
Inverness
River Ness
Forres in Bloom
…and cake
Aviemore
Loch Morlich and the Cairngorm Mountains
Heather
Loch Morlich and the Glenmore Forest
Logie Steading and River Findhorn
Scottish thistle
Knock Farril
Cromarty Firth from Knock Farril
Glenurquhart Forest
By chance we parked right by the cache
Loch Ness
Yachts in the Caledonian Canal Locks
Just opening the gates
Inverness
It rained hard and then turned into a great summer day!
Beauly Firth
The view at lunch time
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The Kessock Bridge
River Cannich
Corrimony Cairn
Black Rock Gorge
Evanton Wood and the River Glass
Thunder storm at Dingwall Campsite
The view from in the car
Invergodon
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Invergodon looking away from the docks
John o’ Groats and Ness of Duncansby
Orkney
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Dingwall Campsite
We had been camped here for eight nights – so we left our marks! A couple of days of sun and rain should fix it.
The MX-5 is not big enough for two to go camping, so we need some extra luggage room. The boot bag fits securely and adds 50l of extra space.
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We were up early and packed and away at 7am from Dingwall Campsite.
Heading back to Lincoln today.
MX-5 with “boot bag”
We made a plan over a late breakfast to go walking for the day in a nearby forest, but we took the wrong turning and just kept going. It was sunny, we had the roof down on the car and the scenery was great. A check of the geocache map showed there were plenty ahead of us.
We stopped in Cannich for coffee and cake at the Bog Cotton Cafe and then onto geocaching and walking.
River Cannich
Corrimony Cairn
Corrimony Cairn is an ancient burial mound, built about 4000 years ago.
River Enrick
Milton
Geocache 300
VR
When we got back to the campsite having had a great day out in glorious weather with the roof down, we discovered the site was flooded in places. The heavy rain started at Dingwall at about 11am and went on and on for four hours!
So for a day that started by taking a wrong turning, it turned out alright for us.
