Popmaster this morning – Ady scored more points than me but we both did better than the contestants AND I got 3 in 10 so would have won the digital radio 🙂 Little things…
We had marked a couple of the walks in Glen Affric as suitable with decent car parks according to the online research I’d done, but we were very conscious of limited petrol in Willow so decided to only go 20 miles as we knew the nearest petrol station was 5 miles behind us so that would be 45 miles back to get fuel.
We did Plodda Falls walk first and were rewarded with a sighting of a red squirrel which was very cool 🙂 Far too sprightly to hang around long enough to photographed of course but a good clear sighting for us. The pine forest was gorgeous, all springy underfoot and smelling of Christmas :). We had a good long walk around there, finishing at the falls itself which was fairly small fry compared to some of the falls we’ve seen the last couple of weeks but quite a long drop so mesmerising to watch the water fall so far.
Back to Willow for lunch as we were all hungry. Then on to Dog Falls. We didn’t do the full walk but walked alongside the river for quite a bit, went over the bridge and then decided we needed tea / coffee so headed back to the van. Ady and I had tea and coffee and I made pizza dough while Davies and Scarlett played beside the river outside the van. Am definitely conscious that they need some time to let off steam each day outside and do their running, shouting type stuff that living in such small confined space means they struggle not to do otherwise.
We then had to decide what to do next as the petrol gauge was reading red. We decided to head straight for the petrol station rather than back to the overnight stop we’d been at last night so did that and then realised Inverness was only 15 miles away. So we headed in that direction as we will need food and more fuel tomorrow and it seems silly to head the other way and pay little village shop prices when Inverness and supermarkets are so close so we’ll head there and stock up with everything before going back to the wilderness again :). We ended up parked in the same layby we used on our very first night wild camping, nearly a month ago.
Pizza for dinner, hot chocolate and stories and then bed. Can’t believe we’re back where this whole part of the adventure started having been in the big loop all the way around the top now. After stocking up again we can head back across the middle taking in the things we missed the first time and then across to Skye to start looking at property – exciting 🙂