We traveled through the Scottish Lowlands, deciding to go through Glasgow to get to Glencoe. This is just an example here of some of the scenery in the Lowlands...rolling hills and arable farmland interspersed with lots of lakes...
Scotland: Fall 1997
From Edinburgh to Glencoe
We traveled through the Scottish Lowlands, deciding to go through Glasgow to get to Glencoe. This is just an example here of some of the scenery in the Lowlands...rolling hills and arable farmland interspersed with lots of lakes...
...but what the heck??? Orange sheep!?! We looked up as close as we could, but it still looked like either it's their natural color or some sort of dye, not paint or anything. We began to wonder if this is where orange wool comes from...? (hee, hee) There was a whole flock all nice and the same color orange as all the ferns...but only one flock...? We thought that if it was some sort of antiseptic dip that some other flocks would also be similarly colored, but no luck...
I completely missed the scenery change from the Lowlands into the Highlands, since I was sick enough that I couldn't keep my eyes open, but when we reached Glencoe, we stopped for some photos by the side of the road here. We also stopped down the road at the Glencoe National Trust station, paid our 50p, watched the video of the massacre of Glencoe back in the 1700's, checked out the gift shop, and asked about any good hiking trails or campsites nearby. We got way too much information from a very nice man with a heavy-enough Scottish accent that I was barely following what he was saying about the different place names! But, I did remember enough to find one really good hiking trail, which you'll see later...
One of the place names I thought I heard was Kinlochleven, which you can barely see at the end of Loch Leven here. It was a very nice drive around the bend from Glencoe and a nice way to spend our afternoon, since we knew we weren't hiking on any trails that day...
We decided to go ahead and stay at the National Trust campsite, which was fine by me, especially since they allowed campfires in the pits provided! Yay!
Believe it or not, this is the building where the toilets, showers and dishwashing sinks are. I thought it was a very nice walk over to the bathrooms when you took this little path over the brook and through the trees...
We were allowed fires, but that meant we had to find enough dead wood and not pull any off of trees. Since it had been raining off and on, we found plenty of wood, but it was all damp. We started a fire with charcoal from our little barbeque, dried out some wood, and had quite a nice little fire going. We found all the wood we could and put it under a tarp so it would dry out for the next few days. Here Marcus is trying to use his Swiss Army knife saw tool to cut through this log...
...an appropriate meal to be eaten while camping in the Scottish Highlands? hee, hee...
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