I’ve found a brilliant place for a family holiday - Stoer Head Lighthouse. It has 2 self contained apartments and is plonked on a remote and beautiful headland overlooking the sea - of course! We found it this morning as we continued to work our way slowly south on the Northwest Highlands Rock Route. We’ve been travelling in the wilderness of the Assynt and Coigach and the North-west Sutherland which forms a remote, rugged region of the northwest Highlands and is characterized by dramatic isolated peaks, extensive peat bogs, and stunning coast. It is part of the UNESCO North West Highlands Geopark, renowned for its unique geological history and ecological significance. The whole area is breathtakingly, hauntingly beautiful and ancient with the underlying rocks billions of years old. One can almost see where the ice sheets and glaciers of the last Ice Age about 2 million years ago scraped across Scotland carving great swathes and forming mountains, etc. Much of the exposed rock is pink Lewisian gneiss formed about 3 billion years ago. But I diverge.
As I write this, we are parked on the banks of Loch Assynt, a big inland loch about 15 km long, overlooking the ruins of Ardvreck castle.
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| Location, location |
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| Magnificent views |
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| Wish that we could! |
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| Lindsay is after elusive seabirds |
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| We took the roads that hugged the coastline |
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| The roads were narrow! |
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| The ruins of Ardvreck castle |
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| Trees were an unusul sight in this rugged landscape |
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