27th & 28th June, Mon & Tue–Ullapool, Inverewe and Gairloch

 

Ullapool, planned in 1788

Stornaway ferry at Ullapool

Crab boat, Ullapool pier

Unloading crabs by the big bucket

 

A “Telford” church – there were government grants to build churchs and Telford designed and built a number of these.  The one at Ullapool is the best preserved.  There was a gallery which they were using to show a video on the area.

Ullapool has some fine buildings, hotels and old warehouses which have not been too pulled about, at least from the outside.

I drove south to Inverewe Gardens

Inverewe Gardens -

its walled garden is special.

Strawberry thief

and gooseberry thief

Inverewe House in need of love and attention – and a purpose.

Oak tree in Inverewe gardens.  A great deal of the soil was imported.

I drove on to Gairloch

Gairloch village

Gairloch

Gairloch museum, and yes, I was the only one there but the old chap didn’t act as a personal guide

The old lighthouse prisms

Local Jurassic fossils, known as “devil’s toenails”

 

I’m not sure the sign and the WC are necessarily related.

Then I looped back to Ullapool, quite a long day/drive…