Day 5: Ardmair Point to Scourie 39 miles Total 251 miles
It was a beautiful morning when we set off to drive north to Scourie. Sandy Smith had told us to make sure to visit Knockan Crag and it was well worth the stop with interpretation of continental drift and the discoveries of the Victorian geologists, Peach and Horne made on the cliffs here, which allowed them to explain the reasons for the positions of the different rocks – a mystery to previous geologists.
Poppy was not impressed with the life-sized statues of the pair and she barked her head off at them. What she did love though, was rock climbing, even managing to nearly scale the ball shaped monument.
From here there are great views towards Stac Pollaidh, but then the rain came.
And after the rain a rainbow as we ate lunch in a carpark at Inchnadamph.
Then it was through Assynt and over the Kylesku bridge, recalling the miniature submarine serice which trained in the waters here during the war. Then on to Scourie where we found ourselves a beautiful clifftop pitch overlooking Scourie Bay.
There are more pictures of our road trip along the NC 500 on my Flickr page.