Ullapool - Lochbroom, Highlands of Scotland
The red bouy flasher that sits in Lochbroom, rising to reveal the village of Ullapool, in the Highlands of Scotland.
Scotland NC500 Road Tour Sept 2019 | Kinlochewe to Ullapool | Ep154
We travel from the Kinlochewe Caravan and Motorhome Club site to the Broomfield Holiday Park in Ullapool and stop off to view Loch Ewe on the way.
There's nothing like a little shopping in Ullapool as we have a little walk down to the ferry terminal.
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UK Cruise 2018 09 Ullapool
Episode 9 of a cruise on the MV Astoria around the British Isles in April 2018 visiting Ullapool.
Ullapool Weekend - April 2004
Allan Ward video of the Monklands Ramblers - monklandsramblers.org.uk
Hello, these are the home pages of the Monklands Ramblers Club, one of the largest R.A. clubs in Scotland, and the first Scottish R.A. club on the Internet! We are based in the Monklands area of Central Scotland in North Lanarkshire, some 12 miles east of Glasgow. The two major towns in the area are Airdrie and Coatbridge, and it is from these towns that the majority of our 150+ members come from. There are also a significant number of members from other areas of Lanarkshire, in particular, Hamilton and Blantyre.
The club was formed in the summer of 1985 by a few local people who were interested in hill-walking. At that time the walks were fairly informally organised and people travelled to the walks in cars. Nowadays we are organised into a proper club with a full elected committee. Our members consist of people from all walks of life ranging in age from 20 - 75. We run a 53 seater coach or minibus to all of our walks (which are always covered beforehand by the leaders), we have walks programmes which cover Scotland and northern England and cater for all levels of fitness, and we occasionally go as far afield as Austria for special one-off walking holidays. Monklands Ramblers also has a very active social scene with regular dances, quiz nights and ten-pin bowling outings organised by the committee.
The club has actively and successfully campaigned for rights of way to be maintained and enhanced in the North Lanarkshire area. We have also become very much a part of the local community with frequent acknowledgement of our activities in the local press. The club is extremely successful simply because of the effort and support shown by the members. We consider ourselves a friendly bunch of people who always have a great time irrespective of the unpredictable Scottish weather! We would also be delighted to welcome along any new walkers who may be considering joining us - so come on, contact us today!
Route 500: Loch Ness to Ullapool to Durness, (Sango Sands Campsite); Scotland, A835; A838
Route 500 leads you around the outer most edge of the Scottish Highlands.
The auto-focus on the camera really struggled because of the low sun reflecting off the heated window screen filament wire, especially during the first 30 minutes of the video (it wasn't just the camera, I could see it as well and it wasn't exactly helping see past the reflections on the window screen--especially with the low sun!) Luckily, it doesn't happen very often. Either way, rather than cutting the first half hour from the video or scrapping it entirely, I've left it in tact so you have the choice to either ignore it when it plays up and watch the entire journey, or just skip forwards 30 minutes to when the picture is better.
In this section, our route was:
Loch Ness to Ullapool to Durness, Scotland.
Roads: A835 and A838.
We end the journey and this video, at Sango Sands Campsite, Durness, Lairg.
At Durness, you can get 24 hour fuel, using a credit/bank card payment machine at the pumps, which are opposite the shop shown in the video.
The Spar type shop shown in the video, is 20 meters up the road (up the hill) from Sango Sands Campsite. To give you an idea of Sango's prices, camping cost £8 per night last year.
I can't remember if that was per person or per tent, but remember there being a billet styled kitchen with Gas hobs that were Free to use, along with a brand new toilet / shower block!
There is a small shop on the road by the entrance to Sango Sands (slightly down the hill), which also sells hot coffee/tea, but the one shown in the video, just up the road, opposite the petrol/diesel station, is larger and sells most things, but the prices and selection is pretty good at both shops.
Not shown in this video, but so you know, there is also a 24 hour petrol station at John O'Groats.
It is located at the Post Office, which is open normal business hours; the fuel pumps are card payment 24 hour (or cash when the post office is open).
The sound had to be muted to avoid copyright issues.
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Driving Britain.
Walking Tour Of The Region Surrounding Ullapool Highlands Of Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of a small group walking tour of the region surrounding Ullapool in the Scottish Highlands. The area surrounding Ullapool is dominated by rugged mountains, and especially by Bheinn Ghobblach to the west, An Teallach to the south west, Beinn Dearg to the south east close to the head of Loch Broom, and Ben Mhòr na Còigich to the north. An Teallach is a massive mountain which dominates the area and consists of Torridonian sandstone, which is layered nearly horizontally. It is an easy climb but is several miles from the nearest road, so a long trek is needed before the ascent begins.
Ullapool 6/7/8 MCMC
Moray Coast Motorcycle Club lunchrun to Ullapool 6.7.8
[NB. This video has been speeded up during editing for effect!!!]
Ullapool Pipe Band
this is Ullapool and Distric Pipe Band playing at Ullapool car park
Ullapool Weekend
A coach trip to the Highlands with a few friends
ROADTRIP: Exploring the Lake District, Loch Ard, Loch Ness and Ullapool
We explored the Lake District on foot, drove around Scotland for 4D/3N. Get some idea from this video if you want to give it a try. You can also read all about it here:
➡️Walking around the Lake District
➡️Roadtrips around Scotland
Review of the hotels we stayed at:
➡️Lake District: Dale Head Hall Hotel
➡️Scotland: Macdonald Forest Hills Hotel and Resort
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Ullapool to Stornoway. .
A day excursion [May 2008] to the largest and most northerly of the Outer Hebridean Islands, Lewis; from Ullapool to Stornoway by Calmac on a calm still hot day.
Soundtrack: WISHBONE ASH - 'Persephone'; this version from the Past and Present Live.
There's a light that shines on Persephone,
Always a fire in her eyes,
And the last time that I went to her
I could tell things weren't right.
I just don't care to see your years go wasting,
There's no longer magic in your eyes.
In your time, you could outshine everybody else around,
But your off-stage ways might be a bore -
You take a bow, you take a fall.
I came to be here in the footlights,
To live with you through every song,
And your face displays a peaceful field.
I can't believe the curtain has to fall.
Now I know your years were never wasted,
Tonight I saw the magic in your eyes.
It was in 888 that King Harald of Norway added the Hebrides to his Crown - hence the existing Norse place-names of Lewis, Harris, Uist etc all of which derive from those sea-roving Vikings. This video captures the sailing to Lewis from Ullapool.
On the east shore of Loch Broom, Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a herring port by the British Fisheries Society - and was designed by Thomas Telford. The harbour is still perhaps the focal point of the town and is used as a fishing port, yachting haven, and ferry port. Ferries, as in this video, sail to Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides.
Many of the pivotal discoveries of the Victorian era that contributed to the development of the concept of plate tectonics were made in this area, and there are still regular international geological conferences! Others, of course, visit here for the scenery, hillwalking and the Seaforth, FBI and the Arch!!! Not to mention those amazing breakfasts in the local cafe!
Ullapool is surrounded us on all four sides by mountains and contains some of the most beautiful unspoiled scenery in the world with undiscovered beaches, forests, hidden glens with stags grazing, waterfalls, bird sanctuaries to explore, breathtaking twisty single track roads, all warmed by the gulf stream that gives it the tropical garden look with the comparably mild weather. It really has its own micro-climate. Boat trips depart to the enchanting Summer Isles as does a power boat trip that is highly recommended [watch the other video - Seascape adventure]; see seals and porpoises or marvel at the botanists miracle of Hydroponics in Achiltibuie.
From his 1920 writings 'The Land of the Hills and the Glens' author Seton Gordon in a chapter regarding 'Winter Birds on the Shore of the Minch' , writes thus: -
Across the waters of the Minch there stand the hills of Lewis, and there can be seen the entrance to Stornoway Harbour, a good forty miles distant, with the rounded hills that guard the port. Away beyond the entrance to the two lochs - Loch Broom and Little Loch Broom - there stands, perhaps twenty miles to the northward, the wild headland of Rudha Stoer, with its lighthouse, built high above the waters of the Minch. Even at this great distance one can see through the glass of a clear winter's day the spray rising high on the rocks as the swell from the north-west breaks, with the full force of the Atlantic, on this exposed headland.
Lewis is, in general, the lower lying part of Lewis and Harris, with the other part, Harris, being more mountainous. The flatter, more fertile land means Lewis contains the only town, Stornoway, and three-quarters of the population of the Western Isles. Our sailing on this occasion was a (pedestrian) non-landing one, so it would be nice to return again, this time for the ascent of the 799m 'Rocky Hill' Corbett, An Clisham (Clisham). The oldest rock in the Highlands is the Lewisian gneiss from which the hills of Harris have been carved.
From his 1921 'Wanderings of a Naturalist' Seton Gordon describes it thus:- On the Island of Harris are many hills, and the highest of them all is Clisham, which reaches an altitude of 2,622ft. And from the summit concludes on a clear day St.Kilda can be seen, the distance being roughly sixty miles.
From his 1923 writings 'Hebridean Memories':
Fom the lone shieling of the misty island
Mounains divide us, and the waste of seas -
But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides
Ullapool Biking
Tain boys up for a blast in ullapool
Bagpipers in Ullapool
Bagpipers in Ullapool, Scotland, UK
Achiltibuie, Badenscallie cemetery north of Ullapool
Achiltibuie is another of our favourite places to hide every year, Badinscallie burial grounds are roughly 1 mile south, driving straight through Achiltibuie, turn right down a wee road to the beach, Sea Eagles, Divers, Buzzards & otters if your quiet & Lucky enough!,..... go explore Scotland, so many nooks & crannies hiding all our little bits of paradise.
ULLAPOOL: trip to the BONE CAVES [2010]. Advert free Video!
Them bones. 'Bones, caves and bleak lands' is what it states on the signpost and thats exactly what is here. You may find it hard to imagine that Polar Bears once lived here in Scotland but on this bitterly cold, bleak, snow-showery 'summer' day it certainly wasn't too difficult to imagine! The Bone Caves have been designated as an Ancient Monument by Historic Scotland and also as a Site of Scientific Interest by Scottish National Heritage and only requires a short hillwalk to reach them.
This is the route to the 815m Corbett BREABAG meaning 'little height' while looking back reveals the view of the 847m Corbett CANISP meaning 'white hill'. An engraved stone on the path at a junction indicates the route to the mountain and for us on this trip anyway the route to those caves. I've never seen a road sign used on a mountain path before so the 'falling rocks' sign on the hillside path must be at least somewhat perhaps unique.
These amazing caves have been named Fox's Den, Bone Cave, Reindeer Cave and Badger Cave and it was during a 1925 visit by geologist J.E.Cree that the incisor tooth of a bear and two pieces of reindeer antler were found. The following year Badger Cave and Reindeer Cave were excavated and more items were found. Nearly 1000 fragments of reindeer antler have been found some of which date back to over 47000 years.
So, Arctic Fox, Polar Bears and Northern Lynx as well as many other animals have left their mark up in these Bone Caves in this Inchnadamph National Nature Reserve. On this occasion though it was our turn to shiver in them. The actual Reserve itself was previously a resting place for cattle during the drives to market in Falkirk. The four north-facing caves look out from the base of the limestone Creag nan Uamh over the Allt nan Uamh glen. At the head of this glen, would-be Corbeteers will encounter the ancient calving grounds of the reindeer on the slopes of BREABAG.
Reindeer Cave and Bone Cave are connected by a narrow passage that children can apparently negotiate! The most interesting find in the cave really has to be the discovery in 1927 of a Polar Bear cranium aged at around 18,855 years old! There is no evidence to suggest that people ever lived in the caves although they may have been used on hunting trips; the caves have been mainly inhabited by animals. The Polar Bear skull and some reindeer antlers are on permanent display in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
At a car-park some 5km north of Ledmore on the A837 a path departs passing some small Falls before following the steep and winding path to the Bone Caves where you are treading in the footsteps of some of our best known explorers. It is said of Ben Peach that, when working in the Northwest, he would work long hours and then take every third day off and go fishing. So they obviously took sickies in the old days as well then. Anyway, he may not have had much luck because there are no lochs up the glen of Allt nan Uamh, and not much in the way of rivers either, but world-famous geologists Peach and Horne found something just as rewarding. While surveying the geology of the area, they came across the Creag nan Uamh Bone Caves and in 1889 they partially excavated the mouth of one of them and found pieces of animal bones. Peach and Horne found the remains of animals that incredibly once roamed the Scottish Highlands including Lynx, Polar Bear, Arctic fox and Lemmings.
The Moine Thrust runs through the area and the nearby Inchnadamph Hotel is apparently still a mecca for geologists. Its a pity that the Public Bar doesn't appear to be open to the Public now although I can remember sitting in the bar here many years ago after having just climbed Conival and Ben More Assynt. Nearby there is a monument on the other side of the road to the work of Ben Peach and John Horne whose work was so crucial in the understanding of this, the first thrust fault to be discovered anywhere in the world. The monument's inscription reads: To Ben N Peach and John Horne who played the foremost part in unravelling the geological structure of the North West Highlands 1883-1897. An international tribute. Erected 1980. The hotel retains a copy of the guest book signed by many prominent geologists of the day who visited during the 1912 British Association for the Advancement of Science excursion to Assynt.
Well, this certainly was a fascinating hike to the caves where the remains of the last known wild Polar Bear to live in Britain were discovered.
dc-2017-0172e Tarbert - Ullapool, Motoerit Outer Hebrides, Schotland (17-06-2017)
Durness to Ullapool
A drive in the north of Scotland from Durness to Ullapool
Ullapool Bettyhill Scotland March April, 2013
photos of my latest trip to Scotland. my first video :D
Ullapool 2009
BURGHEAD SUB AQUA CLUB AT ULLAPOOL APR 2009