The Falls of Shin were amazing, I bet the Sprites were having a great time in the water!

The weather has taken a turn so we gave up on an attempt to reach John O'Groats against the gales, and turned south passed the long Loch Shin and stopping at Lairg to sit out the bad weather. I managed to get some excellent pic's of common ink cap and the next day, some cobwebs holding the morning dew on the way to the Falls of Shin.

Rock pooling is great at Scourie, here's a sea potatoe shell and unfortunately a dead crab. We did a bit of karma litter picking, ridiculous what comes in with the tide each day :-(

Ended up at Scourie with this view from our camper window :-). We watched two seals flopping about in the water below, yay!

Travelled west to Lochinver for more fabulous views, including Suilven, then back up to Kylestrome, which was amazing too; looks like the Pyrenees in this weather. I wouldn't like to drive over the bridge in high winds in the camper though!

Ardvreck Castle

Ardvreck Castle on Loch Assynt, lovely and strangely the area was covered with silver weed - good for seeing into the 'otherworld' apparently when placed on the eyelids, if that doesn't work you can always stick it in your shoes as a foot reviver and refresher (which definitely does work)!

Sorry, it's actually yarrow that was used for seeing into the 'otherworld'! I've just read that silverweed was used as a crop - the roots a tasty parsnip flavoured potato substitute, or they were dried and ground to make porridge or bread. (Also medicinally applied as a compress for heartburn or hemorrhoids :-) They do still work for sweaty feet though!

Approaching Gairloch looking south. There's abrilliant cafe/bookshop at Gairloch!! We stopped at Ullapool, although we shouldn't have considering all the lovely stops that we had passed so far, but a well missed take away was calling. Alas, it was crap, so never an indian or chinese take away again!! Always disappointed, so worth waiting for a gauranteed good one or at least a restaurant.