Wester Ross

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We're spending a week in the Wester Ross area over the New Year.
Anyone suggest a good secluded/remote beach we could camp at for a
night...?

From my experience WEster Ross beaches tend to be stony and not
conducive to comfortable camping. Beaches further north are sandy and
have decent dune systems for shelter. Try Sandwood Bay or Durness area
of Sutherland.

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We're spending a week in the Wester Ross area over the New Year.

Anyone suggest a good secluded/remote beach we could camp at for a

night...?

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There are two cracking beaches at Red Point, on the peninsula between the
Applecross and Gairloch (reachable from near Gairloch), or some good ones on
the road to Melvaig, also from Gairloch.

Redpoint is a big sandy beach, about 30 mins walk in from a car park.
Accessible via a dead end road that runs alomg the south side of Loch
Gairloch through Shieldaig (not the one near Torridon) and Badachro.
Brilliant place.

Then there's Big Sand near Gairloch - although there is a campsite
there, but dont know if its open in winter. And Camus Mor which you
can get to via the light house at the end of the Rua Reidh penninsula
- not sure if you can park there though if you're not staying at the
lighthouse. But you can also access Camus Mor from Cove round the
corner.

Then a great beach at Gruinard Bay which is a bit further along the
coast...plenty of options

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from "Jim" <[email hidden]> contains these words:

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We're spending a week in the Wester Ross area over the New Year.
Anyone suggest a good secluded/remote beach we could camp at for a
night...?

From my experience WEster Ross beaches tend to be stony and not
conducive to comfortable camping. Beaches further north are sandy and
have decent dune systems for shelter. Try Sandwood Bay or Durness area
of Sutherland.

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Then there's Big Sand near Gairloch - although there is a campsite
there, but dont know if its open in winter.

WARNING! Extremely expensive, £10.50 for the tent, before they start
throwing in the per person bit.

Richard Webb

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Then there's Big Sand near Gairloch - although there is a campsite
there, but dont know if its open in winter.

WARNING! Extremely expensive, £10.50 for the tent, before they start
throwing in the per person bit.

Richard Webb

That's a rip off - the worst I've heard of! I was a bit taken aback last
year at having to pay £9 at Cwmystwyth site considering how basic it was. I
was most gratified to find that there was no charge for camping on the top
of Plynlimon Fawr the following night however!

James Butler wrote

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Redpoint is a big sandy beach, about 30 mins walk in from a car park.

The road goes all the way to Redpoint beach. Are you getting it
mixed up with somewhere else ?

Chris

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James Butler wrote

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Redpoint is a big sandy beach, about 30 mins walk in from a car park.

The road goes all the way to Redpoint beach. Are you getting it
mixed up with somewhere else ?

Chris

It goes straight to the first Red Point beach (the north westerly one), but
on the other side of the headland across the boggy farm track and a few
fields is another, more remote southerly facing beach, of the same red sand,
which has fantastic views over to Torridon, and has a very atmospheric old
fishing station at its eastern end, a great place to camp a night I'd
imagine.

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It goes straight to the first Red Point beach (the north westerly one), but
on the other side of the headland across the boggy farm track and a few
fields is another, more remote southerly facing beach, of the same red sand,
which has fantastic views over to Torridon, and has a very atmospheric old
fishing station at its eastern end, a great place to camp a night I'd
imagine.

Looked good from An Ruadh-mheallan last month..

Richard Webb

Woollyzone wrote

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It goes straight to the first Red Point beach (the north westerly one), but
on the other side of the headland across the boggy farm track and a few
fields is another, more remote southerly facing beach, of the same red sand,
which has fantastic views over to Torridon, and has a very atmospheric old
fishing station at its eastern end, a great place to camp a night I'd
imagine.

Indeed. I am very farmiiar with it and have a number of pictures of
it in my portfolio. I just thought that 30 mins was stretching it
a bit.

I suppose you could walk slowly ;-) but it may simply be my memory
playing tricks with me. I agree, it is an untterly fabulous spot and if
you're prepared to do an awful long 2-car walk then the path through to
Craig and Diabaig is well worth the effort. We were lucky enough to cadge
a lift up the coast from Diabaig on a local fishing boat and then walked
back. A great experience.

Chris

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Woollyzone wrote

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It goes straight to the first Red Point beach (the north westerly one),

but

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on the other side of the headland across the boggy farm track and a few
fields is another, more remote southerly facing beach, of the same red

sand,

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which has fantastic views over to Torridon, and has a very atmospheric

old

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fishing station at its eastern end, a great place to camp a night I'd
imagine.

Indeed. I am very farmiiar with it and have a number of pictures of
it in my portfolio. I just thought that 30 mins was stretching it
a bit.

I suppose you could walk slowly ;-) but it may simply be my memory
playing tricks with me. I agree, it is an untterly fabulous spot and if
you're prepared to do an awful long 2-car walk then the path through to
Craig and Diabaig is well worth the effort. We were lucky enough to cadge
a lift up the coast from Diabaig on a local fishing boat and then walked
back. A great experience.

Chris

I was there last December and it was so boggy it took me half an hour at
least! I walked the Diabaig to Craig bit which was as you say a stunning
walk, but had no means of doing the round trip, and there & back was too far
in December's short daylight hours. Another time perhaps, as I am probably
more of a fan of coastal walking than mountains!