The Highlights of Northern Highlands

Trip Start Apr 29, 2008

Trip End May 01, 2008

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

30th April 2008: Around Highlands (North)

We woke up and had our wonderfully cooked Scottish breakfast served by Caroline at our own appointed time -

Breakfast at the cosy room

10am. The view from her breakfast room was fantastic - we could see Loch Ness

Loch Ness from breakfast room

and her beautiful farm while enjoying our breakfast at the cost breakfast room.

Beautiful farm from breakfast room

View from Drumbuie Farm

1st leg : Drumnadrochit - Tomich - Cannich

Ploda Falls:
We started our adventurous day right after breakfast by driving

An enthusiastic Driver :-P

towards Cannich but just before that, we took a left turn to enter a village called Tomich. We finally had our first experience driving on the very familiar SINGLE TRACK ROAD

Passing place for single track road

of he Highlands.

Argi entering Ploda Falls

We drove to a car park where we then set off on foot to find the Ploda Falls.

Ploda Falls

Spectacular !

It started to drizzle but we started to climb the steep hill which led us to the beautiful Falls.

My MAN !!

Argi in action

Glen Cannich:
We continued on the road

Our fantastic drive

and entered the magnificent Glen Cannich.

Amazing view

The roads leading to the place itself offered many spectacular sceneries.

Magnificent or what?

We saw many deer

Wild deer everywhere

So many of them !!

and we seemed to be the only tourists around, which is a good thing because most of the roads leading to these beautiful sights are single track roads and we can imagine how choked up they could get during peak tourist season.

The unpredictable weather continued to dominate the mood of the atmosphere and these were all captured beautifully by our dear Nero. A picture speaks a thousand words...so, we will just let our photos speak for themselves.

Us @ Glen Cannich

Very windy Glen Cannich

YeeeAaaaah !!

A very happy couple in a very lovely scene

Beautifully captured by Nero

Another view of Glen Cannich

Total tranquillity

Happy Us again!

Sudden change of mood

Then we saw this...

And he lifted his head to look at us!!

Peaceful...

2nd leg : Beauly-Nairn-Drumnadrochit

Beauly:
We continued from Cannich northward towards Beauly, a market village about 10 miles West of Inverness. We stopped at a very nice cafe to have some local Scottish sweets and tea before continuing further North East of Inverness towards the seaside town of Nairn.

Nairn:
Nairn seemed to be a busy little town with many narrow and one-way streets and many people on and about town. We departed from town and proceeded to find the sea,

Us @ Nairn

Blissful Us

which was situated at a lovely quiet end of the town.

It has become very windy but sea is our favourite spot and we braved ourselves to walk on the Scottish seaside and got blown by the fierce Scottish wind.