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! Found it this morning as we continue to slowly work our way south on the Northwest Highlands Rock route. We’ve been travelling in the wilderness of the Assynt and Coigach and the North-west Sutherland National Parks. 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 carved swathes, forming mountains etc. Much of the exposed rock is pink Lewisian gneiss formed about 3000 million 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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