The corners of Scotland

[Matt2matt2002]

Great tour.
But you seem to have missed one of the corners, what about the Scottish Borders region?!

Ah ha.
Someone is on the ball.
My 4 corners were intended to be....
Mukle Flugga, north
St. Kilda, west
Mull of Galloway, south
Peterhead, east

I did north and south.
West was a no go, due to the boats not running, but I was on Harris, so kinda west.

East is Peterhead and its up the road from where I live, so although I have been there in the past, I'll pop up at the weekend.

There are various ways of ticking off the 4 corners. Mainland, islands, inhabited islands etc.
Only specifics I read about was the Scottish end to end. Mull of Galloway to JOG.

I didn't mention it, but I also attempted to climb the nearest Munro to each corner plus Ben Nevis.
I did 3 out of 5

Matt

[Andre Jute]

Ah ha.
Someone is on the ball.
My 4 corners were intended to be....
Mukle Flugga, north
St. Kilda, west
Mull of Galloway, south
Peterhead, east

I did north and south.
West was a no go, due to the boats not running, but I was on Harris, so kinda west.

East is Peterhead and its up the road from where I live, so although I have been there in the past, I'll pop up at the weekend.

There are various ways of ticking off the 4 corners. Mainland, islands, inhabited islands etc.
Only specifics I read about was the Scottish end to end. Mull of Galloway to JOG.

I didn't mention it, but I also attempted to climb the nearest Munro to each corner plus Ben Nevis.
I did 3 out of 5

Matt

[cycladelic]

Hello folks,
That's me home safe after 32 days on the road, all around Scotland.
The last leg took me down through Fort William, Oban, Arran, to the Mull of Galloway.
Then back up through Dumfries and Galloway, Glasgow, Perth and back to Aberdeen.

Matt

Pictures to follow

I love that shot of the ship's side, Matt.  Very clever.

We also had reasonable weather, with just a bit of drizzle on a couple of days. Our arcing route went west from Inverness, around to Applecross, then over the high road to Loch Carron. After that, we headed to General Wade's road from Fort Augustus. We got to Glasgow via Loch Lomond.

Here are some of my snaps...

[Matt2matt2002]

Wonderful pictures. I didn't manage the Apllecross part. But its on my to do list for sure.

[cycladelic]

Wonderful pictures. I didn't manage the Apllecross part. But its on my to do list for sure.

It didn't seem too difficult going from the village of Applecross. Coming the other way would be steeper.

Here's another photo - my wife heading down Glen Etive, which runs south off the top of Glen Coe...

[Matt2matt2002]

Nice one. I've done the Glencoe area a few times.
Must say, I found the Cullins on Skye more impressive, and less traffic!

Days 2&3



On Shetland there are BODS. Hostels run by the Council £10 per night. Very cozy indeed. Windhouse is the main derelict building nearby. Haunted they say.





I rode to the very top -



Muckle Flugga lighthouse over my shoulder. Unmanned now.


Outside Lerwick museum.



Old man of Hoy from the ferry to Orkney


Kirkwall, Orkney.





They do a good sunset up there.

[cycladelic]

Must say, I found the Cullins on Skye more impressive, and less traffic!

Yes, Matt... the traffic up Glen Coe was nasty. There's no shoulder and it's a busy route. Going down Glen Etive is totally different, though. It's a cul-de-sac.

I found Skye to be pretty busy too when I toured there a few years ago... here are two snaps:

[Matt2matt2002]

I did Skye top to bottom, Uig,Glenbrittle and Mallaig.
Traffic was naghty at times apart from the dead end diversion to Glenbrittle. Nice camp site and beach there BTW.
Best traffic was on Isle of Eigg but that's a bit of a cheat coz it only has 1 road. Spent 4 fantastic days there.
Matt

[Andre Jute]

Nice, Matthew, almost like being on tour with you.

[jags]

class

[John Saxby]

Splendid photos, Matt, esp the sunsets.  Nice of Rual to lend you his camera, the one with all the blue-sky scenes!

[Matt2matt2002]

Thanks John, and co.
When I took the sun set ones there was about 30 of us jockeying for position over the rear rail of the ferry.
A few sharp elbows came I to play from time to time. Quite competative are photographers!
As the sun finally sank from view I looked behind the gathered group and said, "Look, there's another one". And I swear 10 folk turned to look.