DAY 3
Yet again Charlie (who honestly normally sleeps to anytime between 7.30am and 10am) arose at 4.30am with everyone else following at 8. It was rather moist outside the tent so we opted for breakfast bars in bed!
We got the kiddos changed, strapped into their carseats and got the tent down, having to pack the dry inners separate to the absolutely soaking outer.
A quick toilet inspection and sand collection and we were once again on the road again. Tonight’s campsite is Clachtoll Beach away up the North West of Scotland.
We topped up with fuel at Broadford and waved cheerio to Skye as we drove up and over their fantastic bridge.
After roughly 242 questions and several bottles of juice later we arrived at Dornie village hall to make use of the superb public facilities available.. yep toilets 🤣
Here we took the chance of getting some pics of Eilean Donan Castle and a funky bridge with kayakers about to paddle under before we all bundled back into the van excitedly as our next stop was only about 2 minutes away.
We had found the hidden gem called Manuelas Bakery where we opted for some epic Nutella and biscuit croissants. The bakery is like no other due to it’s fairytale characteristics (see photos below as our descriptions won’t do it the justice it deserves!)
The next leg of our journey consisted of many road types and surfaces, lots of haribo sweets and of course the obligatory questions! We had a quick pee stop at Achnasheen Railway Station (where, for just a brief moment, we considered sending the kids home on the next train) before we were back on the road with our next adventure stop being at Corrieshalloch Gorge.
The sun was shining brightly as we walked down the easy going path and over the suspension bridge (which Chelsea was definitely not keen on) to the viewpoint which also happened to be about 800 thousand feet up in the air much to Chelsea’s delight 🤣🤣
After several wobbly steps and a few photos taken as quickly as possible (not just cos Chelsea wanted back onto solid ground but also that Charlie was trying to climb up the bloody thing!), we headed back to the van with a few nature pees on route!
With everyone’s water bottles replenished and yet more sweeties shared out we headed up the road to Ullapool to top up out very low supplies of beer, milk and munchies!
From here we headed up to Clachtoll Beach Campsite on some very twisty, up and down and narrow roads, (Even I was getting rather travel sick despite being the driver!) They do have some pretty random road signs up north though…
We pitched the tent (just the outer to give it time to dry off a little), whilst the kids played some games on the large grassy bit behind the van.
Before we knew it, it was teatime! We headed down to the incredible kitchen/diner area where we made hotdogs, scoffed our faces with donuts and toasted some marshmallows. Charlie also enjoyed “helping” everyone with their washing up!
From here we headed round to the games room where the kids enjoyed playing some guessing games, reading books, a very competitive game of Hungry Hippos between Charlie and myself, and wondering why they couldn’t see any stars through the telescope when looking through it up into the sky… it was 7pm in the height of summer 🤔🤣🤭
With the inners of the tent now up and all beds made it was time for pjs, milk and bed. The kids settled down no bother which allowed Chelsea and I to tag team going for a nice long hot shower each. Not much banter this evening as everyone was tired and a tad grumpy! It had been a long day with a good few adventures!
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