MV Loch Seaforth in Loch Broom

Apothecary7, Maeve the Deerhound and I travelled to Ullapool today. A very different route than we have travelled from home to Ullapool before. Not too much difference in the mileage (250) but very different roads. No dual carriageways this year.

From Campbeltown, leaving at 9am, we went North up the Kintyre West coast road then on into mid Argyll. Tarbert, Lochgilphead, Oban (with a stop for petrol), then we stopped on the other side of Oban at Poppies for an early lunch. We carried on to Connel and went over the bridge then North through Benderloch and on into Lochaber crossing the bridge at Ballachulish to get to Fort William. Then we followed the Great Glen to Fort Augustus (heaving with day trippers), Invermoriston (very quick stop), and on past Urquhart Castle (very busy) to Drumnadrochit (more tourists) where we took a shortcut across country (rather than go up to Inverness) to come out by Contin. There we were back on a very familiar road. Through Contin, then Garve, and then across to Ullapool. 

We got in at 3.50pm. Parked the car at the house then popped round to the next street to The Ceilidh Place to meet Himself. We were delighted to have made it in time to have a bit of a blether before it was time for Himself to catch his bus to Inverness on the beginning of his journey home. 

On the way back round to the house we stopped in at the art and craft gallery Ceard to see if our friend Jan (who makes handmade books and paper sculpture, as well as being a medical herbalist) was there. No luck, so we had a chat with her business partner and said we would be around in the week.

We had a short walk before a visit to the supermarket to stock up on food for the start of the week. After dinner we had a wander round town to make sure Maeve the Deerhound had a chance to walk off the hours in the car. The MV Loch Seaforth had just turned round the headland for the start of its run out Loch Broom and through the Summer Isles when we got to West Terrace kindly providing me with a photo.

DMC-LX7 f/2.8 1/250 sec. ISO-80 18mm (35mm focal length 121mm)