Scourie to Dunnet - How long to tow?
We're currently at Port a Bhaigh, Altandhu, with a stunning view, and will welcome advice on the next stage of our trip, please. It's our first caravan expedition, and so far it's wonderful!
We're hoping to get to Dunnet Head, by Thurso. The planned next stop meanwhile, is at Scourie.
It's a bit over 100 miles between there & Dunnet, but it's on plenty of winding one-track roads. Other than Durness, about 20-something miles from Scourie, there's nowhere showing itself as a good place to stop on the way.
So any experienced advice on how long that whole West to East trip takes, and/or on somewhere with EHU to pause on the way, would be very welcome, please.
Wifi is limited round here, so I'll try to look in within the next 24 hours, but won't be online much between.
Thanks,
Richard
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We broke the journey and I'd recommend doing just that. Journeys take longer on those roads. It might only be 26-28 miles from Scourie to Durness but it's a very scenic route and worth taking your time to look around. Sango Sands at Durness is a perfectly good site and the scenery is terrific.
Similarly, the route from Durness to Dunnet Bay via Tongue is scenic and not a journey to rush. We broke that trip by stopping at Altnaharra.
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Rather than the site at Durness, which we have also stopped at, there is a nice CL at Laid, half way down the west side of Loch Eribol. It has EHU available and toilets attached to a cafe, that are available 24/7. It is about 34 miles from Scourie and 71 from Dunnet. The whole journey is certainly doable in a day, but as TW says the journey will take longer than normal.
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I tried reporting it earlier, Steve, but guess what appeared when I hit the report button
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You may, indeed, ABM. I suspect you know the area as well as, or better than, most of us.
It's a place for taking your time and drinking in the scenery.
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Thank you all - much to help us here. And enough to tell us that we need to make the whole trip all over again some time and stop in different places, and take more time... where was home, again?
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You're welcome, HH. It really is a trip worth doing again at your leisure. You'll see what I mean when you get there.
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Definitely agree, that corner of the country has some of the best scenery in Scotland and we have spent many happy holidays in the area.
If you stop off at Durness the John Lennon memorial is worth a visit. Between the age of 9 and 16 he spent his holidays with cousins at Sangomore
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I've just posted separately our thanks to all for so much helpful advice which made such a difference to this trip. To report on this particular stage - the weather on the day we moved was so foul we looked briefly at the doubtless excellent Scourie site, what we could see of it between mist and driving rain, and moved on through a blanket of mist and more driving rain to Sango Sands, where the sun suddenly came out on the gorgeous bay there. From there, the next day gave mostly clearer weather across to Dunnett, where it was so windswept we decided to carry on down the coast to Brora after a one night stay.
The most helpful wardens at Dunnet offered to let us leave our van on the pitch for an extra hour or two - plenty of space on the site at the time - while we visited Dunnet Head, which was so much more rewarding than John o'Groats could ever be! Truly is it said that there's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes. We wore a great deal of the right clothing on that and other days!
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You certainly have the right attitude for that part of Scotland Hedgehurst. We have visited the north west a lot of times over the last 40 or so years and have experienced everything from almost hurricane force winds to bright sun and 25 degrees. However, it is the scenery that keeps bringing us back. That mixture of rocks so old, they were present at half the age of the earth, and then the younger ( relatively) Toriddonian peaks of Stac Polly, Suilven and Ben Hope etc, rising shear from the basement. Even on a bad day, spectacular. Hopefully on your future visits you may experience some of the 25 degrees.
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Great post, HH. I hope the weather's better next time you go. You'll see so much more.
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