Left Ballater and headed towards Aberdeen. On the way, we stopped at the swing bridge over the Dee River called Cambus o’ May Bridge. By the time we reached Aberdeen, we realized that a gale was blowing. I was trying to remember where Shona had brought me to the Sea front and finally found it. Could hardly open the car door and the North Sea was beginning to foam. The salt blown up by the wind was all over our windscreen.
All along the coast, there are golf courses right on the sea front and so it is with Aberdeen. They are all Links courses and on a day like today it would certainly be a challenge.
As we drove towards Inverness, we took the scenic route along the coast and it was really worth while as the coast was so rugged and beautiful with little fishing villages nestled in under the cliffs and small man-made harbours to shelter the boats. We drove down to two of them, Pennan and Cravie and was it a challenge? One-lane roads and hair pin bend, after hair pin bend. Today the wind was really whipping up the waters across the Moray Firth and Cromarty Firth.
The farmers are presently harvesting their hay and the fields look so picturesque with the gold stubble still in the fields and bales of hay laying in the fields and then the green of the grass and the blue of the sky and sea. We decided to drive through Inverness and find some accommodation a bit further north. BAD idea!!! Once into this area, you are in the oil-rig area and all the accommodation is taken up with the oil workers. In the end, we found a really nice B&B – Susie’s At Tain so all was well.
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