The next day we continued our journey and drove up towards Fort William, stopping at the Green Kettle Cafe on the way, which is a place we have stopped at before and really like.
We stayed at a campsite this night rather than wild camping and the site we stayed at was in Roy Bridge. Whilst the campsite was very nice, we weren't impressed with the two local pubs, neither of which allowed dogs! Quite surprising really, given that most pubs in areas full of walkers happily accept dogs and neither of these pubs were in any way posh. It goes without saying that if Ruby can't go in, we don't go in so we walked back to the van and had some drinks there whilst playing a very old board game called Word Mastermind!
The next morning we continued our journey but had a brief stop in Ford Augustus on the way as it was such a lovely sunny day.
Eventually, at around 4pm, we arrived at our lighthouse, Rubha Reidh, which is where we'll be staying for the next week. It's way off the beaten track, north of Gairloch and has a three mile long private road to get to it.
No sooner had we arrived than I got my running gear on and went to explore. I tried to get round the headland but being on my own and unsure of the area, I eventually bottled out and came out onto the road, running along that before turning off and running up to the masts on top of Maol Breac. After admiring the far reaching view, I then retraced my steps back down again and along the undulating road back to the lighthouse.
Duncan then went for a bit of an explore on his bike before coming back and getting the log fire burning in the living room. So cosy!
Total distance - 5 miles
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