Glencoe Mountain Resort.

[runnach]

Graham, last time we stopped over at the crofter land at Shieidaig Highlands (which is now an official campsite). Our previous visit was paid to the crofter into a donation box. This visit no box next to sign, I spoke with the lady in her garden at house next to land to ask about donation box. She told me donation box had been stolen.

 

[maingate]

Many years back we spent a night at Port Errol Harbour and back then there was a little donation box as seen in the centre of the screenshot.

There was a suggestion of £5 per night for motorhomes so we duely paid and always put ours in an envelope with our name and registraion on it.

8 motorhome and campers spent the night there, the following morning an elderly guy came and went to empty the box.

He came straight over to us, thanked us for our contribution and asked if we needed any info on the area.

He then went to the others who first claimed they`d paid then said they didn`t carry cash and would send it by post, bet they didn`t

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I always did the same as you and put £1 (instead of the customary 20p) in the toilet honesty box as I knew I would use it more than once.

On one occasion a new motorhome arrived and parked up close to the Harbour wall. I noticed that they never went near the honesty box, so it slipped my mind to warn them that bad weather was due and the waves topped the wall. Around 11 pm that night they moved their van suddenly. I wonder what that was about.

 

[kensowerby]

Makes my blood boil. I hate selfish and inconsiderate behaviour, anywhere, at any time, by any persons.
Unfortunately I cannot see any easy answers, apart from euthanasia or *sterilisation for the offenders so they can't reproduce any more of their ilk.
*Without anaesthetic of course.

And a rough cut hacksaw blade

 

[alcam]

And a rough cut hacksaw blade

2 half bricks

 

[HurricaneSmith]

Graham, last time we stopped over at the crofter land at Shieidaig Highlands (which is now an official campsite). Our previous visit was paid to the crofter into a donation box. This visit no box next to sign, I spoke with the lady in her garden at house next to land to ask about donation box. She told me donation box had been stolen.

That's taken me back a few years! The last time we visited was 2011, at a time when we also used the honesty box. I'm appalled to think people would stay and not pay. We loved the view to the wooded island and the walk downhill to the pub each evening. I've just nipped upstairs and seen how posh the "campsite" looks now.

 

[runnach]

That's taken me back a few years! The last time we visited was 2011, at a time when we also used the honesty box. I'm appalled to think people would stay and not pay. We loved the view to the wooded island and the walk downhill to the pub each evening. I've just nipped upstairs and seen how posh the "campsite" looks now.

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Wow, that image brings back a memory. I think it was easter 2017, I parked slightly further to your van right, as I had gone in too deep onto the grass, trying to drive closer to the rubble road, I was stuck. Tried several methods including mats, not moving. I gave up after a while and the bungalow to right, there was a chap loading his trailer with logs, then driving behind his house to his log store. I walked round to his house and and I asked if he knew a number for a local tow truck, he asked why, I explained. Fortunately for me, he was a 100% indigenous Shieldaigian, nae worries he says, he drove me back in his Mitsu L200, which had a front winch installed, out I popped. Can I give you something for for you helping me out? No says he, can I lend you a hand moving remainder of logs and help you pile into log store? Och no says he. Turned out he is a commercial saturation diver, and we blethered about how good the loch use to be for scallops and Cray Fish.

The island is protected by NTS and is a nesting area for White Tailed Sea Eagles, the trees are Caledonian Pine. Attached pic of the island, the rock shelf to left in image, drops down a deep slope, scallop dredges cant get to close to the sand bottom slope, use to pick up scallops the size of dinner plates at this point. This image is looking over to Shieldaig, crofter land is behind the island. House image, looks over to Upper Loch Torridon, we walked along the peninsula where Loch Torridon meets the Upper Loch. Google map, sea eagles view of the white painted house.

A stunning part of our world.

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