Richard and I had planned to go to the Lake District this weekend – we had even thought about wild camping up around Honister, but have now decided to camp in the Peak District. Richard needed some food so we stopped at Tesco where this news paper was on sale!
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Dunbar Camping and Caravan Club site is a great place for sunsets – and tonight is no exception.
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On my way to Dunbar
I left the Skye campsite just after 7am having taken less than 15 minutes to pack up – the rain helped me hurry!
Again I decided to stop along the road somewhere for breakfast – with a view.
more low clouds!
On the road to Fort William
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Above is where I stopped for lunch
When I got to Dunbar it was warm and sunny – so I have a chance that my tent and gear will dry out. I still pitched away from the view as experience on this site says the wind blows in from the sea.
It has been a grey windy afternoon, with the hills opposite the site obscured by cloud.
It was the right choice to put the back of my tent into the wind – a few tents on the site that chose to pint their tents at the view have been battered by the strong winds with two of the being blown down. I have shot some video of my tent in the wind which I will post when I leave 1985 and move back into the 21st century and the Internet!
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I had planned a cashew nut noodle curry for tea tonight – then a Fish and Chip Van turned up at the campsite.
So I had very good haddock and chips, sitting in the back of my car, watching a movie on my iPad.
The Skye Camping and Caravan Club site is located on the side of Loch Greshornish near Edinbane. The site is very exposed to the the prevailing westerly winds – which were blowing hard as I put my tent up.
Because of the wind I pitched the back of the tent to the view (and wind) and put the wind break at the back to give the tent some protection. This also means I am cooking at the back of the tent.
Not that it is windy all time – this morning the wind had dropped off to a light breeze and I had my breakfast looking out over the loch.
There is no EE phone signal at the site so no 3G or even 2G, the posts I have made this morning have been done in Portree, where there is a poor 2G EE service. I looked around the village for a cafe with wifi but could not find one – and the couple of BT wifi signals I found had their public wifi turned off!
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