Glen Torridon | Applecross | NC500 | Scottish Highlands & Islands Travelogue 2018 | S1E12

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We drive the North Coast 500 route to Glen Torridon and Applecross!

After a very comfortable night and delicious Highland Breakfast at the Harbour House Hotel in Ullapool, we head off on the scenic coastal drive to Applecross, about 120 miles on the route we took.

Along the way we briefly stop at a number of scenic points, starting with Dundonell and then Badcaul on Little Loch Broom, before heading down to Gruinard with its famously pink sand.

What we didn't know at the time (only discovered when doing the research for this video) is that Gruinard Island, only half a mile from the mainland, was the home to the infamous World War 2 era Anthrax experiment! The whole island was infected with Anthrax and remained off-limits to humans until 1987 when any remaining Anthrax was destroyed by saturating the Island with a combination of Formaldehyde and Sea Water. It is regarded as safe today.

From Gruinard we continue down the coast to the lochside town of Gairloch, where we grab a coffee and enormous cakes at the Mountain Coffee Company.

From Gairloch, we head inland to drive through the spectacularly scenic Glen Torridon up toward the Loch Torridon overlook. We would highly recommend Glen Torridon, we didn't stop as we drove through but plenty of hiking, fishing, and other outdoor activities were in evidence as we passed.

Next to the picture-perfect town of Sheildaig on Loch Torridon, with the tree-covered Sheildaig Island (and not Torridon Island as incorrectly stated in the video) sitting right in the middle of the loch.

From Sheildaig we take the coastal road to Applecross. There's a faster inland route, but this coastal route is not to be missed! It is a winding single-track road that runs, for much of its length, along the cliff top adjacent to the Inner Sound, on the opposite side of which lies the Inner Hebridean island of Raasay.

We finally reach Applecross, which as it turns out is both the name of the "village" containing the Applecross Inn and adjacent Applecross Campground and the name of the whole peninsula. This might go some way to explaining why the Applecross Village Shop is not actually in the village of Applecross but actually seems to be nearer the village of Camusteel, two villages away. Locally, what's labeled on some maps as "Applecross Village" is known as "Shore Street", and the Applecross name is not used to refer to Shore Street. In any case, the Applecross Village Shop has very limited opening hours during the October-March season (we should have looked this up ahead of time), opening only 4 days per week for about 4 hours in the morning; accordingly, our quest to purchase supplies at the local shop denied, we head back to Applecross Campground and make the short walk down to Shore Street and had a great dinner at Applecross Inn before heading up to camp, where hopefully the wind will stay calm overnight ...

Video shortcut links:

Ullapool to Dundonnel: 1:05
Dundonnel to Badcaul: 2:27
Badcaul to Gruinard: 4:09
Gruinard Beach: 5:08
Gruinard to Gairloch: 6:25
Gairloch to Glen Torridon: 8:41
Glen Torridon: 9:39
Sheildaig to Applecross: 16:14
Applecross: 21:05

This series follows our 2-week Scottish Highlands and Islands adventure from October 2018. Join us as we drive over 1,500 miles in 14 days and visit the islands of Mull, Iona, Harris, Lewis and Skye, and drive parts of the NC500 Scottish Highlands route.

The playlist for the series is here: http://bit.ly/travel4x4tv_scotland2018playlist

Places of interest:

Harbour House Hotel, Ullapool: https://www.harbourhouse.uk/
Mountain Coffee Company, Gairloch: https://www.facebook.com/MountainCoffee.Gairloch/
Applecross Inn: https://www.applecrossinn.co.uk/
Applecross Village Shop: http://applecrossvillageshop.co.uk/
Applecross Campground: https://visitapplecross.com/accommodation/

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Title and outro music composed and performed by Steve Wetherill
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