SCMS Gathering Tullybannocher 18/09/22

A very well attended gathering, which unfortunately was a victim of it's own success. Lots of great looking bikes and lots of blethering by the attendees. The staff at Tullybannocher coped well with the constant stream of customers.

Great looking Harley, and sounded as good

Kawa Z750 looks like an American spec model

Lesley's Street Triple

Clean Suzuki GS750

Stunning 1939 Brough Superior

Bill's braw Ducati 350 single

Moto Guzzi Loop

Pano doesn't give a sense of how busy it was

Alan's very clean Commando

Matchless Silverhawk

And from the other side

Marion's 400-4

Rudge and Brough together

Nice colours on the Trident

Ali's Guzzi

Busy bike park

BSA Rocket 3 with the raygun exhausts

BSA Thunderbolt

1955 Norton 500 single

Fraser's stunning BSA Firebird Scrambler

The Rondelli Guzzis

North West Scotland Holiday Part 4. September 2022

For our last days stay in Culkein we had a more sedate walk along the beautiful beach at Clachtoll. The blue skies and clear waters adding to the sense of peace and quiet. The good weather led to some amazing night skies, another stroke of luck getting to see the Aurora Borealis again from our hut in Culkein. The next day we took the scenic road down the coast to our next campsite at Altandhu, stopping off for a walk along Achnahaird Bay. Heading home on our last day we stopped off at the Corrieshalloch Gorge. Another stunning week in Assynt and the surrounding area led to us planning to stay the following year.

Clachtoll Beach

Culkein Locals

Culkein Aurora

Achnahaird Bay

Beautiful Bay

View of the Summer Isles from above Altandhu

Sunset from the Fuaran Bar

The Summer Isles and the Fisherfield Munros from Achiltibuie

Pano of the Summer Isles

Corrieshalloch Gorge Platform

The Gorge

North West Scotland Holiday Part 3. 02 - 03/09/22

The route to the Trailigill Caves which is the largest Cave system in Scotland starts from the carpark beside the Inchnadamph Hotel, which is also the start of the walk for the Munros Ben More Assynt and Conival. The going is fairly easy on the well made path all the way with a branch to the right for the caves.

Stunning scenery looking back to the Quinag mountain range

Uamh an Tartair, which translates as cave of the roaring is the first of the Trailigill Caves 

Further up the valley to more caves, we didn't venture into this one

Heading back to the carpark across from Loch Assynt

The next day we drove to Inverkirkaig for a walk out to see the Falls of Kirkaig waterfall, which is around 2 miles or so each way along a path, thankfully the weather had been dry otherwise it could have been a boggy trudge.

Norman MacCaig's Poem at the start of the Falls of Kirkaig path

Falls of Kirkaig

We scrambled down the rocky path for a better view, not for the faint hearted

Deep pool

View of Suilven on the way back

River Kirkaig

Assynt evening light

Stunning sunset colours

Culkein landscape