We’ve just had a fabulous week’s holiday in the Highlands of Scotland with two dear friends. The weather was brilliant, just the odd rain shower which is often in one area and you can drive through it and find bright sunshine a few miles further on. We were staying in a Hoseasons’ Farmhouse on the hillsides with magnificent views, cows, rabbits, an abundance of chaffinches, a hooded raven and roe deer in the forest behind the farm. We even had a badger to visit the patio area one evening!! The sunrises were spectacular and the sunsets were awesome. On other mornings, mist rolling over the hillside and land made its own unique pictures, with the sounds of owls, a deer, or the cows mooing making an eerie noise through the mist. We travelled many miles in the surrounding countryside of Inverness, taking in the breathtaking scenery, individual villages and towns, Loch Ness and The Black Isle, a peninsula from Inverness surrounded by Beauly Firth, Cromarty Firth and Moray Firth. I managed to see Red deer, a mistle thrush, a few herons by the Firths’, a kite, groups of pink footed geese on fields, quite a few buzzards, a Stag with his three hinds (Thank you Annne for spotting them) and a Goshawk at the entrance of the Cairngorms. Oskar and Topsie had a wonderful time. They loved being in the Farmhouse and had a regular first & last walk to the main gate, some 1/2 mile distant. They travelled everywhere with us and we’d stop at a forest, a Loch, or the beach of one of the Firths’ where the’d excitedly get out and have a good walk. They got to know the mouth of Loch Ness quite well and we have a lovely photo of Topsie standing in the Loch up to her chest in water, almost grinning. She loved being able to drink the water in streams or Loch’s but had a shock when she tried to do the same when on the beach at Fortrose and found the water to be salty! Unfortunately it was not the right time of year to see any dolphins on the Moray Firth. Our friends have moved on to spend a week at Applecross overlooking the Inner Sound and the Isle of Skye so I look forward to hearing all about their time spent in such a remote time. I hear, by text, they have already passed a Stag and 4 hinds standing at the roadside quite oblivious of their presence.!!
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 07:14:05 +0000
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