Lewis's Blog (Month 6)
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Months: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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This week saw us getting ready for our first week long
adventure in the campervan with both boys. But before that, Nik and Finlay
headed off for the annual Dads & Toddlers' camping trip to the beach. Annie and Lewis went up
on the train and met up with the smoky boys and we all headed to a campsite in
Ullapool stopping enroute to explore for a few geocaches.
We met up with Imogen, Ken and Harvey in Ullapool who had
hired a campervan too. Finlay and Harvey had a lovely time playing together and
chasing each other around the campervans. We then caught the ferry to Stornoway
on the Isle of Lewis. We camped by the beautiful Uig beach at Cnip, purportedly in the
top ten campsites in Europe, and we certainly agreed. Finlay had a lovely time
splashing in the waves and playing on the beach. We visited the standing stones
of Callanish, the Lewis chessmen statue, and were treated to a brilliant close
up view of a sea eagle. We then headed through Harris and camped beside another
beach for the night before catching the ferry to Skye. On Skye we stopped off
at a few places and walked up to the Old Man of Storr (a rock stack a few kilometres inland form the coast), before meeting up with Imogen,
Ken and Harvey on the south of Skye where we wild camped for the night.
We took a glass-bottomed boat trip from the
Kyle of Lochalsh where we were blessed with seeing lots of seals and an old
underwater wreck. We then headed to Fort Augustus for a couple of days chilling by
the canal. The midges finally caught up with us in the evenings in Fort
Augustus but we were still blessed with absolutely glorious weather. Our final stop was the
Speyfest survivors ceilidh on the way back East, the final stop on a brilliant
holiday.
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Annie, Finlay and Lewis On the ferry heading away
from Ullapool, on route to the Isle of Lewis.
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Wild camping on the shores of Lewis.
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The stones of Callanish on Lewis.
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A large version of one of the Lewis Chessmen.
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Finlay playing in the waves on the beach at Cnip.
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Back on a ferry heading from Harris to Skye.
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Lewis and Nik on the east coast of Skye.
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Finlay tries to catch some tea with his net,
with the Cuillin mountains in the background.
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Lewis seemed very interested in trying Daddy's pint.
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Similar to Finlay's Blog, from this point onwards we will be writing the blog by calendar month, so August will become Month 7.
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