Day 1: Home to Delnies Woods 93 Miles
The North Coast 500 route round the north of Scotland has been getting a lot of attention world wide, Travel Now magazine has placed it in fifth in a list of ‘six of the best’ coast road trips on the planet. Top was Cape Overberg in South Africa, followed by the Amalfi Coast in Italy and The Atlantic Road in Norway. The Pacific Coast Highway in America and the Coral Coast in Australia made up the list.
Over the years we have driven parts of the route, and loved it. Now it was time to take our courage in both hands and set off in the motorhome to do the NC500.
Day One doesn’t really count; the NC500 officially starts and ends in Inverness. But we decided to make our starting point the Delnies Woods Caravan Site near Nairn. So off we set to what is a favourite site for us, with its tall trees and wonderful woodland walks for the dogs.
Although it was just an overnight stop at the beginning of our adventure, I have come away with a couple of memories: owls hooting in the trees during the night, and encountering a red squirrel in the early morning as I went out with Poppy. He was in the vacant pitch just opposite us, after the seed in the bird feeders, I think, and enjoying scampering up till he was out of sight in the tall conifers. Needless to say, no camera with me in the half dark early morning!
There are pictures of our road trip along the NC 500 on my Flickr page