#Inverewe Gardens

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Travel 2024 – North Coast 500 – Day 12 (Around Gairloch)

Wednesday 9th October, 2024 – Gairloch, Inverewe, Badachro Distance driven: 36.0 milesTime at the wheel: 1 hour 14 minutesHeiland coos spotted: 0 After the previous day, Wednesday started out looking like it would be an easy day without much in the way of driving. The initial plan was to go a few miles in one direction to visit Inverewe Gardens and Pool House, and then a short drive in the…

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Scotland (2) (3) (4) by Alexandre Dulaunoy

Via Flickr:

(1) A view of Plockton, a nice small town in the Highlands of Scotland. (2) A gull eating a sea urchin. (4) Walled garden in Inverewe.     

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Inverewe Gardens, Scotland

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J11 - Samedi 10 Juin

Aujourd'hui c'était une petite étape routière de 95 km pour relier Ullapool à Gairloch. (environ 1h 45 en temps)

Comme toujours , la route est très belle et cette fois ci elle est a deux voies ...le luxe !

nous faisons une première halte pour visiter les jardins "inverewe garden" à Poolewe; c'est très joli et les plantes du monde entier y sont représentées...la visite se fait en 2 heures. Puis on atteint gairloch vers 14h et l'on fait une rando de 2h30 sous un soleil de plomb (environ 30 degrés). la rando est sympa mais un peu désertique et sans ombre ! On en profite pour boire le thé sur une table et des tabourets en pierre !

arrivé à notre hôtel vers 16h45, celui ci est juste a coté d'une petite plage, j'en ai donc profité pour me baigner ! l'eau est à 13 ou 14 degrés mais la température extérieure est environ de 30 degrés ....donc cela se fait !

demain c'est une grosse journée de route pour aller à l'ile de skye !

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Many #plants bought at #Garden #Cottage #Nursery & great chat with @b.rushbrooke, then on to @InvereweGarden @inverewegarden #Inverewe. Today was a really, really good day. Now off to @Seafood_shack1 @theseafoodshackullapool #SeafoodShack #Ullapool for delicious #seafood! (at The Seafood Shack) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf4WTVnKiaK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dknuth]

West Coast; Gairloch and Inverewe Gardens 

Improved weather on the west coast so we went to Inverewe Botanical Gardens. Beautiful gardens that take advantage of the location on the very temperate and wet west coast to grow lots of plants further north than normal. It was great, but as we left I said, there's nothing in this garden that would grown in Madison Wisconsin. We took a boat ride that was supposed to show aquatic wildlife in the area, but the was't much of that. It was a good day to be on the water though.

Steve and Carolyn came down with some sort of stomach bug so we took the afternoon off and they skipped the rest of the meals that day. I took a short walk around the Gairloch area.

[lilyandthemoorland]

Inverewe Gardens (Scotland)

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Princess Anne visiting Inverewe Gardens in Wester Ross, Scotland.

She toured the garden, met the staff and volunteers involved in it’s care, and unveiled a plaque on the foundation stone of the new ‘Inverness High Viewpoint Tower’ being built at the garden | 9 July 2019

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Inverewe Gardens

Achnasheen, Scotland, United Kingdom

57.77570833333333° N, 5.605471666666666° W

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Katsuyuki Moray is all prepared to type out The Young Eel and the Sea, as soon as he finds some fingers.

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KM 2040 - Isle of Skye

Auf die kürzeste folgte eine der längsten Etappen. Natürlich musste ich die Costal Route von Ullapool über Gairloch nach Kyle of Lochalsh nehmen. Die spektakuläre Küstenstraße bot viele Ausblicke, schon recht bald mit Skye am Horizont.

Vorbei an Inverewe Garden (leider keine Zeit) trieb es uns bis zu Elean Donan Castle. Die Schlange Touristen allerdings auch gleich wieder aus dem Center.

Dann stand noch der Neist Point auf unserem Wunschzettel. Denn exakt am gleichen Tag hatte Lisa vor einem Jahr meinen Antrag dort angenommen. Es gibt keinen schöneren Anlass, um diesen besonderen Punkt wieder anzusteuern.

Allerdings liegt der westlichste Punkt von Skye wirklich sehr abseits und der Track dorthin kostet Kraft und Konzentration. Vor allem mit der schweren Harley! Kompliment an Heikos Leistung!

Nach unserer Rast dort, mit einer tollen Überraschung von Lisa, ging es dann die restlichen 47 km bis nach Portree.

Insgesamt standen am Ende des Tages 360 km auf der Uhr. Keinen einzigen davon möchte ich missen.

Thomas

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Scenes from Gairloch and Inverewe Gardens

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An abstracted tree, to make for a viewing platform overlooking the botanical gardens.

https://www.dezeen.com/2018/07/16/denizen-works-eyrie-observation-tower-inverewe-garden-architecture/

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Inverewe Garden, Highlands, Scotland. by Seckington Images 2D7A0439 f Inverewe Garden is a botanical garden in the Scottish Highlands. It is located just to the north of Poolewe in Wester Ross, and is noted for the breadth of its collection. The garden was created from barren land in 1862 by Osgood Mackenzie on the 850 hectares estate https://flic.kr/p/2iRTLcz

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Scotland - 1975 Edinburgh, Fortingall Hotel, Kenmore, Aberfeldy, Inverewe Gardens and Appleby

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Scottish Passes and a Submarine - Days 11 and 12

So today we say goodbye to daddy and wave him off on an early bus towards Inverness. It’s now just the child and I!

Our first stop was at Corrieshalloch gorge. It was deserted and we enjoyed a slightly damp wander along it. They have put some great viewing platforms in and it is worth a visit.

Then it was on to  Inverewe gardens. I’ve said it before and I will say it again. National Trust membership is so worth it when you spend any period of time on the road. The colours of the Hydrangeas were just stunning and wildly varied in colour. Although the garden is past its proverbial best, there’s still plenty to look at. We wandered around whilst Florence did their excellent children's trail quiz.

Then we had a brief  stop at the quaint ‘button bothy’ - amazing what can be done with buttons!. Then a stop at’ the Gairloch museum. A lovely pace that captures the seafaring history of this area. I asked here about the possibility of seeing a Golden Eagle but It sounds like they don’t tend to frequent here now, but once they did.

Driving onto the Applecross peninsula, I found a truly amazing WC spot with a most stunning view over the sea to Skye (there’s a song in there somewhere! ;-))

We watched as the rain clouds moved in obscuring and the revealing Skye, Rassay and  Rona. This was occasionaly punctuated by shafts of sunlight  and of course, rainbows! Just let me say that this picture does no justice at all to the marvels of this coastline.

As the Sun went down we were then treated to a ‘first’ - we saw a submarine casually cruising along. Having never seen a submarine before, this was strangely exciting!

We then had the worst, blowing and rocking van night ever! I was convinced it was going to rip my Skylight off but come the morning, all was well.

We set off  into Applecross and then i decided to take Daenerys up the pass to the Bealach na ba viewpoint.

Sods law occurred and here was our view from the top:

So, one for another day I think!

After our descent we stopped at a lovely  waterside cafe at Lochcharron and found an excellent tiny handmade crocheted and textile goods shop. a little further on - the lady there was lovely and her handicrafts very reasonably priced so keep an eye out for it if you are ever that way!

Deciding that we were now ‘hard-core’ pass travellers, I drove on  to Ratagan Pass to get a view - this time it paid off!

After a brief visit to restock at the Aldi in Fort William, I beat a retreat from the peoples and drove to Glencoe We went for a wander to ‘Signla Rock’ and then I went to park up at Glen Etive for the night, which is  near the Glencoe chair lift. 

This was a site I had used previously on my trip to Scotland. However, on this occasion, we were quickly joined by another camper which then had some soap opera blaring out of their TV for a good hour. To make matters worse a motorhome then rocked up - clearly looking for somewhere to stay. There wasn't enough room left on the small patch of land and as it was now very dark and seeing they were having a dilemma. I got out and offered to move my van up so they could just about squish in. They were French and my French is as crap as their English but we managed to get things sorted.

Florence decided to spend the evening excavating gemstones from a block of plaster of Paris. As this is the van, one has to improvise, so her sunglasses became her ‘goggles’ and some sheets of toilet toll became her face mask!

With the weather looking to turn colder and snowier in the next couple of days. I decided to haul ass back down South and home. Daenerys has done it again!