On Friday 26th June we travelled the short distance south from Gruinard Bay to visit Inverewe Garden (National Trust for Scotland)

In some ways I found the Garden slightly disappointing as it seemed to be a bit past its best season wise.

I liked the blue poppies.

These are quite useful when it's raining as it was for most of our visit to Inverewe.

Some of the rhododendrons were flowering but lots weren't.

We did see some nesting herons at the far end of the garden

From Inverewe we went south through Gairloch and Kinlochewe. Then past Torridon and on to Sheildaig where we turned right onto the minor coast road to Applecross passing this nice roadside waterfall on the way.

Just as we arrived in Applecross we saw quite a few deer.

Applecross, pictured here, is one of the most remote communities on mainland Britain. The only way of getting here on land is either by the very narrow coast road from Shieldaig or over the 700 metre high Bealach Na Ba (Pass of the Cattle). We bought diesel here at the community owned not for profit fuel station. The diesel only cost £0.001 more per litre than the last lot we'd got at Tesco in Wick!

Here's the view from our overnight parking place by the beach just outside the village.