Twisty turny

An earlier start than preferable when Scarlett woke with daybreak having had a nightmare. She came down for a cuddle and got into my sleeping bag with me which was lovely and snuggly but meant less sleep after that. Funnily enough I had bad dreams and so did Davies last night…
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It had been our plan to head to Applecross campsite and see if we could book in for the night but we had no phone or internet signal (which is usually one of the campsites marketing plus points!) so decided not to as I really want to spend some time online researching next moves, getting all current pictures uploaded, updating the blog and catching up on emails etc. so it makes sense to do that at a campsite where online time is not restricted. We stopped at the shop for some milk and then parked up next to the beach for an hour so the kids could have some time playing. They made sandcastles, Ady and I drank tea and debated whether the birds we could see were oystercatchers or guillemots – Ady won, they were oystercatchers.
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Then we headed slightly up the hill to spend our lunch time whale watching. The sea was a like a mirror, totally flat for miles and miles. We saw loads of birds but no other marine life. Then we decided we needed petrol so would fill up at Applecross as they have a community owned petrol station and head til we found a campsite with phone signal. This fell apart when the petrol station didn’t take electron cards and was credit / debit card payment only as it was unmanned. Ady was keen to take the shorter route out of Applecross which I was fairly sure was the road Jan and Jonathan had said wouldn’t really be Willow friendly and had signs about it being impassable in wintery weather conditions but I kept quiet and we did it anyway 😆 It was fine, a bit hairy in places, particularly when we were above and in the clouds but a really gorgeous route :). I did tell Ady when we reached the other side 😆
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We reached Lochcarron and stopped for petrol and some food supplies and then decided we would stop either at the best view with phone signal or the first campsite with phone signal for the night, whichever came first. The best view won it – just before Stromferry (no ferry) so we parked up. We’ll find a campsite tomorrow.
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We were parked up nice and early so the kids spent some time playing outside, we’re in a pretty big layby on a fairly quiet road and we watched the loch below go through rain, sunshine and sunset before growing dark. Curry for dinner which we ate listening to the radio and chatting, then a couple of chapters of story before the kids went up to bed. There is plenty to do along the road from here to Inverness so that is the plan for the coming week including an overnight in a campsite before heading back again to Skye for a week or more and hopefully looking at some properties.