Backblip: Forest #2

When we woke at Borgie Glen, the midgies were just as abundant and hungry as they had been the night before. We cancelled our plan to do the blue trail and elected instead to backtrack and to revisit Farr Bay, a place that had enthralled us around this time last year.

It was a glorious morning and we were able to play with Nell, take photos and visit the Bumblebee reserve before rejoining our planned route to the camp site at Grummore, on the shore of Loch Naver. There being no great distance involved, we stopped for a walk at Rosal Forest to explore the old settlement relics of the Clearance.

We were stymied at first by finding the trail blocked by fallen trees. It was to be a recurrent theme of this holiday - so many places had suffered storm damage last winter.

The Altnaharra Camp Site was our first formal site experience and we found it to be a good one. We would return. 

The site was pretty much full when we arrived and this surprised us greatly as we expected this late in the season to be a quiet period. Not so - Scotland was full of motor homes! Mr L kept remarking on the fact that Brunhilde was considerably older than all the other vans, which was discourteous of him, I think. He also kept on gleefully remarking that he was the only motorhome driver without white hair and must be the youngest on site. Again, discourteous, thinks the white-haired wife!

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