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. It’s a nice site on the shores of Loch Morlich but not worth £55 a night. No wonder people are wild tent camping.
Good on youSpent £2 per day parking at the weekend met a couple who were in the campsite @ £30 per night with ehu next to us. They had to walk through the carpark we were pitched in to get access to the beech.
That will be the campsite next to where we pitched up on the way to Orkney.Extortionate prices are the norm now everyone is holidaying at home. I have friends who are just back from a weeks camping in the Highlands. £55 per night for a family of 5 in a tent at Glenmore campsite near Aviemore
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Aye. Nice location but plenty of wild camping in area.
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signed upFeels like England and Wales are defining the ancient right to roam as a modern right to exclude!
People complain about travellers and other groups ruining the countryside without realising the governments answer to this and (everything that they don’t like) is to ban it or legislate against it, for everyone.
This makes interesting reading.
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When I was a nipper we used to get dropped of with my parents to camp there.
You were posh, we had to get the bus down then walk from Dirleton. When I had my BSA several of us would ride down on the bikes and pitch up around the tree house or in it if it turned wet.
Just back from the Findhorn and can report the stop over was excellent. We prefer to wildcamp normally but wanted to be close to the beach, so when I saw this place had recently opened wanted to give it a try. The car parks got pretty busy in the day and the stop-over was booked full for the 2 nights we were there. There were a couple of people wild-camping but they got asked to move on, normally there's a height barrier which would have prevented anything too big but it was just getting fixed so I don't think they realised, either that or they ignored the signs! The Findhorn is lovely, a nice little village with beautiful bay and the beach is fantastic. The stopover site is just across the dunes from it and in walking distance of the village with pubs, a shop and delicious fish and chips (quite pricey though). The beach car park (which has a daily charge) and stop-over is a community led enterprise rather than Council run so I feel the £15 a night fair as they've had to invest in the facilities including water and waste points, hardstanding pitches, fencing/barriers, ANPR and booking website. Volunteers came round checking everything was in order and were perhaps a tad over-zealous in enforcing the rules, e.g. someone had deigned to put up a windbreak the other side of the fence to the site and were using it to store their canoe i.e. bending the rules slightly (nothing to be left outside your van overnight) but got told to take it down nevertheless. But as it's new they probably just want to make sure everyone's behaving, especially if they only got planning permission if the rules were keenly observed, they're there on display for everyone to see so no reason not to respect them and it is a lovely place to stay. You can use the public toilets which were there already for those using the car park to access the beach, they're situated just a short walk from the stop-over site but not the best so we just used our own facilities, perhaps they'll invest in them next... Anyway, others might think differently but IMHO despite the rigid rules I think it's fair to charge for this particular place and will definitely be back.
Not to mention there are still basic elsan dump and drinking water sites @£5 a night. I was on one three weeks or so ago
