Loch carron, morvich, and Ratagan poi’s

[Fisherman]

Here are some wonderful places to visit and not that far apart on the west coast of Scotland near the Skye crossing. We spend one night at each, then a night at the C&M site at morvich to empty the cassette and fill the water tank, before heading of elsewhere.

View from above rattagan overlooking Loch Duich and the five sisters of Kintail.

View of Loch Carron overlooking Stromeferry, Lower photo The glen looking up towards Morvich and the C&M camp site.

 

[antiquesam]

I think your pictures have gone astray.

 

[Fisherman]

I think your pictures have gone astray.

Sorted

 

[barge1914]

Oooooh!

 

[dunfillin]

Been to all of them over the years. Very special area but then, there are so many special areas.
I could spend my whole life up there.

 

[Fisherman]

Been to all of them over the years. Very special area but then, there are so many special areas.
I could spend my whole life up there.

Yes dunfilin, and the sad thing is how many Scots have seen them.
I was talking to a man only last week in his 50s who had seen Glencoe for the first time in the summer. He asked me if I had ever been there. He was astounded when I told him we had done most of the hills there, asking me did we need a rope.
I read somewhere that only 5% of Scots had even done a Munro.

 

[runnach]

You me both dunfillan that west coast is a spiritual home , perhaps one day .

My young lady is a Scot born in Hamilton and until we did a whistlestop weekend to aviemore had never seen the highlands , or her country of birth as I call it ...so we have a determined passion to visit the west coast , gairloch , clashnessie ullapool etc ..I know it will take her breath away like it did mine the first time I saw the spend our Scotland has to offer

I refuse to make porridge for one though ,but Lorne sausage on a Scottish brekkie and scotch pie is fair game

 

[Fisherman]

You me both dunfillan that west coast is a spiritual home , perhaps one day .

My young lady is a Scot born in Hamilton and until we did a whistlestop weekend to aviemore had never seen the highlands , or her country of birth as I call it ...so we have a determined passion to visit the west coast , gairloch , clashnessie ullapool etc ..I know it will take her breath away like it did mine the first time I saw the spend our Scotland has to offer

I refuse to make porridge for one though ,but Lorne sausage on a Scottish brekkie and scotch pie is fair game

Watch the midges best done before mid June.

 

[runnach]

The wee beasties eat us two ,soon spit up oot, rhe chemicals they inject in to us two each week lol

 

[dunfillin]

Must be immune to them.
Regularly spend most of August in Ardnamurchan and can't remember when we last had any problems with midges.

 

[Fisherman]

The wee beasties eat us two ,soon spit up oot, rhe chemicals they inject in to us two each week lol

Andrew we were at Loch Lochy in the summer. Woke up Sunday morning and it was raining. Then I realised we had them in the van. Looked outside there was a black cloud, not a rain cloud, a midge cloud. I had to go out to collect levellers and turn of gas. Got eaten alive. Got into van and drove for about ten miles sorted things out, had breakies then drive to fort William. Yet a week later in North Berwick sat out all night enjoying the views and downing a nice bottle of Shiraz, not a midge in sight.

 

[Fisherman]

Must be immune to them.
Regularly spend most of August in Ardnamurchan and can't remember when we last had any problems with midges.

Nobody is immune to the Scottish midge dunfillin.
you have been lucky.
they normally come out early morning or as the sun starts to go down.
but if it’s raining and not much wind, and near water well, they are horrible.

 

[dunfillin]

Nobody is immune to the Scottish midge dunfillin.
you have been lucky.
they normally come out early morning or as the sun starts to go down.
but if it’s raining and not much wind, and near water well, they are horrible.

I do get bitten very occasionally but don't seem to react much to the bites.
My son and his fiance went to China a couple of years back where it's the mosquitoes that are a problem. He wasn't bitten at all but she was covered in bites.
It must be the smell that my family gives off that insects don't like!!
My experience of the east coast, where I grew up, is that it's generally midge free.

 

[Fisherman]

I do get bitten very occasionally but don't seem to react much to the bites.
My son and his fiance went to China a couple of years back where it's the mosquitoes that are a problem. He wasn't bitten at all but she was covered in bites.
It must be the smell that my family gives off that insects don't like!!
My experience of the east coast, where I grew up, is that it's generally midge free.

My wife suffers more than me, but I suffer also.
I had a clegg bite on Arran and my right hand was swollen so bad I could not clench my fist or grip my steering wheel for 2 days. Had to spend three nights in a lovely part of the island. (Well that’s my excuse ) life’s a bitch sometimes

 

[sparrks]

Yes dunfilin, and the sad thing is how many Scots have seen them.
I was talking to a man only last week in his 50s who had seen Glencoe for the first time in the summer. He asked me if I had ever been there. He was astounded when I told him we had done most of the hills there, asking me did we need a rope.
I read somewhere that only 5% of Scots had even done a Munro.

When passing Ardvreck Castle I quite often stop off for a bite to eat, one such time about 10 yeas ago 2 elderly sisters (who had driven up shortly after me) asked if they could sit with me, It turned out that it was their first time up there only having made it as far as Loch Lomond in all their years.
I don't know if it was a wind up but whilst in the 'Serpentine Stone' shop down at Lizard point the lady serving (she said she was 80 something years of age) asked me where I had been, I said I'd just walked over from Cadgwith - she asked me what it was like as she had not been there. Nowt as queer as folk.

 

[sparrks]

My wife suffers more than me, but I suffer also.
I had a clegg bite on Arran and my right hand was swollen so bad I could not clench my fist or grip my steering wheel for 2 days. Had to spend three nights in a lovely part of the island. (Well that’s my excuse ) life’s a bitch sometimes

I get bitten badly both by midges in Scotland and the Thai mosquitoes, the midge bites respond very well with applying vinegar to them which prevents them scabbing and weeping.

 

[chrismilo]

Thanks for the ideas views look stunning