Travelling SOlO Across ISLE OF SKYE In My LAND ROVER ( during winter )

[Music] e [Music] good morning I have woken up in Toran today and it is absolutely beautiful the sunrise is incredible this is where I stayed last night I've had the most brilliant few days here in Toran I've been out on my bike I've been on a few runs and I even got myself a shower yesterday I got the shower curtain out here I got to wash my hair and went in a lock before and getting up for sunrises like this is just worth everything it is incredible the mountains are Illuminating with the sun and it is just beautiful but anyway I've come outside because I'm recently doing a course it's a Vivo Barefoot course and it's called human potential and it's on everything that sort of makes you a better to person as in your well-being and your health and being connected to yourself and the first topic is about light and it says how the blue light in the morning that I'm experienced right now can set off melatonin in your body so in 14 hours my body clock inside me will feel groggy and tired so it'll enable me to feel sleepy and want to go to bed and I think that's aming amazing how You' got a built-in body clock By the Light it comes in on your retina like your lower retina it's crazy how the light in the morning sets off something in your body and it's called a circum I think it is which is approximately day um that's in your body and it sets off this hormone in your pheny gland and I just I find that amazing so that's why I've come out today to just sort of experiment it and also because it's absolutely beautiful [Music] [Music] [Applause] good morning it is so beautiful it's such a lovely morning I cannot believe the weather I was literally speaking to someone just then and saying it feels like spring like the weather is insane bright blue skies not cloud in the sky and the Sun shining and actually you can feel heat off the Sun and um the snow starting to melt on the tops and it's just it's incredible it really is incredible I've stayed at this spot for two nights as I just wanted to get some stuff sorted and I also had a big day of exercise I did a long run and a bike ride yesterday so I it was pretty strenuous and I definitely feeling it on my legs today very achy and um now I'm regretting it because it would be an amazing day to do a Monroe because a lot of the snow's melted so there isn't loads of snow to deal with and the weather is incredible and it's just I got slight regrets I've also got to edit a video so um work's got to come before Mountain sometimes I guess you got to draw a line somewhere but this would be such a perfect day and I really wish I was up there but is what it is I guess last night was something else I came out and the moon was so bright it was a full moon and it was amazing it was lighting up everywhere and it looked like the mountains were aluminous like they were glow in the dark and it was just it was amazing the snow on the tops was Illuminating and the it just lit up the whole landscape and it just it was incredible um so moments like that are really special and this morning the sunrise was crazy I woke up I was feeling a little bit slow and sluggish as I had a long day yesterday and I just saw this beam of orange coming through the window so I dashed out and wanted to see it and obviously talking about the blue light as well how amazing that is uh for your body and sort of set your body clock so it's an amazing course what I'm doing I'm really getting into it and it's just nice to sort of improve your well-being and be more more of an all around person with all your sort of Health with your body just understanding your body more and understanding how aligned it is with the planet is really amazing I'm actually nearing the end of my trip which makes me really sad uh it's a shame I've got a sort of deadline on this trip I've got to get down south to do a work week well full two work weeks for something and I need to get back and it s such a shame I'm so gutted it's just this is my last day in the Toran area tonight I'll be heading over to Apple cross and doing black NE bar and probably camping up there and then after that I've got two days that I'm hoping to spend on Sky if everything works out well and spend just two days touring around Alla Sky then a night in Glen Co and then head into the Lake District for a week and then back down to do the work bits but I wish I had longer up here I really do because when it's days like this it's just you don't want to leave and I've had such an amazing time and the North Coast 500 I really underestimated it and I thought it'd be really busy I thought it'd be really touristy I thought it would ruin the whole wild feeling Scotland gifts and it didn't do that in the slightest it it was amazing and I loved it and it's been beautiful and I've explored so many new things and also Revisited old things that I've loved and really learn a lot like I always do you always do when you go on trips alone and I think that's really precious but anyway I am going to hopefully try and fit in an hour so whether it is just walking halfway up this Monroe which does seem a little bit pointless because I know when I get halfway I want to go to the top either way I really want to just move my body a bit because I know I'll be super achy and get on with some work bits today is definitely not the day sit on a laptop but got to get videos out so that's the plan that is the plan and then I will be heading over to applecross like I said they're meant to have the best fishing chips so I might treat myself tonight and then Camp up black naar which is a big pass that goes through the mountains that obviously leads to Apple cross and then um see how we get on I'm just going up the path that leads to this Monroe that is absolutely Gorge gous and I have deep regrets for not doing it today I really wish I planned on coming up here today it's now 12: so it's too late and I've got a heap of work to do which I was actually contemplating a minute ago and thinking s it should I just leave it and upload a bit later and um do this instead [Music] right so we're all packed up as you can see and I'm thinking of heading over to applecross right now so I've got a bit of work done I got out on a walk which felt lovely and it's still a beautiful day so I thought it's a perfect time to travel over to Apple cross and potentially Bel the bar see how the time goes and uh find a nice spot for tonight set [Applause] [Music] up we at your [Music] soul hting [Music] alone traveling from the deep forest into the sun in war there's never an option to run [Music] oh ohun mo tears keep on falling the night time is ours oh oh you're on MO [Music] [Music] give us your soul hunting alone traving from the deep forest into the sun in war there's never an option to R oh oh tears keep on falling the night time is out oh oh so I've just got to my spot for tonight and oh my gosh it's so beautiful it overlooks the sea it's beautiful it's just 5 minutes up black nebar so it's not that far and I didn't really get into the climb but gained a bit of height to overlook the sea like this because I was just down here really in apple cross and I went to the pub and I got the best food ever I was meant to get fish and chips like I said just cuz I wanted to be sort of like traditional but they were doing a roast Sunday roast so I thought oh that's really really what I'm feeling so I got that and it was amazing I am now in my humble abode I have set up everything I went for a quick walk just to sort of digest that roast so I just went for a walk down this track that I'm parked near and a potential wcky for tomorrow's run before I head off again and just all cozy got my fairy lights up I've got the diesel heater on and just sorting out making it all nice and tidy and livable [Music] today we are heading to AR of Sky which is Mega which is so cool I've just done a morning 5K run and I've just got myself ready and we are going to be driving up BN bar back down black Neal and we've got about just under 2 hours to get to where I want to on AR of sky but it's the most beautiful day I'm hoping to get lots of Drone footage some beautiful shots tomorrow is meant to be awful like heavy heavy rain so we're just going to see how we get on and go with the flow and just enjoy the trip enjoy the time when all Sky while the weather is amazing right so we have just started the real incline for black the bar and Percy's still warming up so I don't want to go too ham because he hasn't got up to temperature yet but already it just shows you how high this road goes because there's snow up here you can see the snow it's [Music] amazing this is awesome this is so beautiful I saw a guy who was um snow plowing and salt spreading this morning when I was down there but I didn't realize there would be this much snow up here on the pass it's actually quite a bit [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] right so I've been driving for a little while and I am now near the car of loish which actually is the bridge that links Mainland Scotland to AR of Sky which is that beautiful island that I'll be visiting over the next couple of days to see how I get on but I'm so excited [Music] I am now in AR of sky and it is beautiful what a warm and lovely day the sun feels amazing on my skin it feels like I haven't felt the sun in so long oh it's wonderful it feels so good to be here and I'm getting very strong Vancouver Island Vibes it just feels like Vancouver Island in Canada for some reason I think it's the trees the road the sea just a bit of everything it's very strange [Music] feeling good evening I'm at my first best spot in our the sky that I'm going to be staying and it is so windy I don't know if you'll hear it during me talking but the wind is really really bad like crazy I'm right on the coast that's probably affecting it but having my dinner I've got burgers tonight something pretty quick and simple to make because I got here quite late um I drove till late really and then wrecked a walk that I want to do tomorrow up to the old Mana store [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning good morning um I would say I slept really well like I normally start every morning and say that um but I really didn't I really didn't it was so windy [Music] it is extremely windy out there like really badly windy um I couldn't really push the back door to get out this morning it was quite funny but as you can see this park up was amazing last night right off the road and uh I wasn't Disturbed and I'm left no Trace I had a rubbish bin that was tied up luckily under the Landy last night cuz I didn't want to keep the rubbish inside while I sleep and it was all across this Hillside the bag not all the rubbish the bag had like flown across the hillside gone down I was right next to the road and um I just did the Walk of Shame this morning and went and fetched it luckily it was tied up cuz they would have just been rubbish everywhere and it took me ages to clear up all up but that got picked up it's back in the Landy now um so yeah just leaving no Trace I just I think it would be so I just have constant guilt that I'd always left that bag there I just I just couldn't live with myself and I don't know how people can leave such a mess in places it's it's crazy I just respect this place too much to want to leave it really nasty but anyway run over let's go and do some cool walks let's go and see if we can see that old man of door and I'll potentially tell you the story behind it on a voice over I love sharing my trips in Scotland and enabling people from all over the world to see the beauty Scotland has to offer but if you do decide to visit Scotland please abide by the leave no Trace policy and leave Scotland [Music] wild but anyway this morning I headed over to the the old man of store so I'll share a little backstory of it now first off sky is the largest and most norly of the inner herdes it is 50 m long and has a population of 13,000 it's believed to have more sheep Than People sky was occupied in prehistoric times and settled by galic speaking Scots from Ireland Norseman ruled the island from the 9th to the 12th century [Music] um about that walk hail stone right I don't know what to do now I really wish I just sent it last night it is super windy and there's hail shall I go or shall I not go is the question there's like bards sliding around on the road it's that windy I don't know what to do I to think about it I just don't see the point now because I'm not going to really see the old Mana store these conditions which is really disappointing because I really really really wanted to do the walk and see it it's a big attraction for coming to Sky because it's just a beautiful piece of rock that's coming out of the ground and the walk looks pretty nice it's pretty easy walk it's all on a paper track up to it so I decided to make my way up there the weather is so on and off [Music] the rain's coming in now woo it's got a very ominous Godly sort of feeling here it's yeah it's it's very very special and it almost feels like a very spiritual place I'm up here on my own so you're getting a whole different experience when you if there was loads of tourists but it is wonderful the old man of store is believed to be a remnant of the volcanic activity that forged the AR of sky around 2,800 million years ago other than that it's mostly myths and folklore surmising about this incredible rock formation believing it was once a giant that roam the Hills [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I'm now returning back to the car going to descend this lovely walk it has been beautiful it is so so beautiful and I'm so glad I made the trip up I'm going to head back as quick as possible before the next hail shower comes [Music] in right so I've got back down and I am going to be heading off again so we're going to be heading on to another cool destination which is Coral Beach it looks like a beautiful beach and the weather's actually cleared up so we might get some nice conditions but yeah that walk was incredible really really enjoyed it [Music] I'm now heading to Coral Beach which should be really lovely and it's sort of made up of loads of tiny seashells um it's really beautiful I've seen photos of it and I've just read about it it's basically skeletons of this red seaweed and it's sort of evolved over years and [Music] years this is the red seaweed [Music] [Music] good evening I've just got to my park up I am EXT extremely tired really tired today I think it's because it's just been really overwhelmed with a lot of beauty and a lot of traveling um and speaking to lots of different people and the time now is4 to 7 so yeah like I said I've just got to my park up it's a simple spot um it's like a sort of gravel Lake by that's off a single Track Road that feels like it's in the middle of nowhere so it's so quiet I've set up Percy a lot better tonight in terms of the wind there's a nice spot just behind me where it's can like go right off and up if that makes sense I'll show you tomorrow but yeah you can drive a little way up and you're on like a bit of a platform and it's a much nicer spot like I say but don't have the same drama with the Wind so I've put my nose into the wind tonight so that will definitely help but yeah in a beautiful location there's clear skies which is crazy I was not expecting that from tonight and I've just got the Silhouettes Of The Hills And it's it's lovely I'm right next to the Sea as well I haven't really planned tomorrow yet it was just going to be based off the weather what to do and what I've seen so far far is it's going to be absolutely torrential rain I haven't checked since because there's no signal here um so I obviously won't find out until tomorrow and that's the truest form of weather actually experiencing it instead of seeing it on a screen sometimes um but yeah I'll just see how it goes I really want to visit the fairy pools that's something I really want to see again and I'll have a look see at other bits and Bobs some hikes or some cool stuff to see that's a low level if it's going to be absolutely torrential rain and yeah but for now I'm going to get some food on I'm going to chill and um I think I'm going to have an early one because feeling very tired today [Music] I've just got to the car park of fairy pools and it's happened again it's raining and it's so clagg over I wouldn't even mind if it was raining it's the fact you can barely see anything that's just thick Cloud so I don't know if I'm going to bother going over there when I looked down the path there was just quite a a few people so you won't get the same experience so I don't know if I'm going to bother plus it's 6 just to walk there and P back to leave your car in this car park so so because of the clagg out weather and the torrential rain I decided to give it a miss this time but if you're not sure what the fairy pools are they are a series of Natural Pools and waterfalls that create this beautiful hot spot that people love to walk swim and take photos of good evening um I'm now in Fort William so I ended up leaving sky and and I was really upset about that um and yeah I just didn't want to leave the weather was awful though it still is really bad I literally went outside walked from Fort William High Street back to Percy and was completely soaked I'm still trying to dry out now so I put the diesel heater on and I'm just sorting everything out because it's a little bit of a mess in here I don't know how it gets mess messy so quickly but it does being in a small space I guess but yeah I had a beautiful drive over I didn't really see much so I can't really call it beautiful it still was really lovely though and I've passed a lot of it before um on foot and in Percy last year so I know what a lot of it looks like when it's nice conditions but yeah there's loads of Monro and things I want to do in that area and I just couldn't do it in the Kint tail um Shield Bridge area just the weather's been awful it's been clagg out so bad the rain's been awful so it's just been a traveling day and uh getting lots of miles in and like I said I'm in Fort William now there is a turn off and you can go to Fort William or in vaness and obviously going to in vaness would finish my North Coast 500 trip but I've been there and I've done the road to in vanesse and I need to get back down South for some brown work so decided to Fork off to Fort William and I've just spent a couple of hours there getting some bits and Bobs and also sat in spoons for a little while as I've just booked something for this August and I'm extremely nervous it's probably one of the biggest adventures I've ever done um so I'm at that point where I'm very very very nervous but very very excited and I've got so much work and training to do to get to that point so I've got now until August to be in top fitness like Peak Fitness and have everything down like kit dden and yeah it's very nerve-wracking you had to put down a bit of money to enter for your security your safety um things like that I'll tell you near the time but yeah that's why I need to come into Fort William I wanted to get Wi-Fi to do that and actually sit with my MacBook and book on and do that and um yeah it was a big move I still haven't digested it but I'm sure it' be great yeah the end of the trip the end of the North Coast 500 the end of AR of Sky I I'm really sad it's come to an end it's gone so quickly I don't know how I've spent a month up here I think it's over a month actually in Scotland itself and it's just it's flown by yeah I think I've spent like five six weeks up here and it's just flown by it's scary how quick time goes and I've seen so many beautiful sites and we go right back from the beginning I started in this area and then I went over to the ks and then I started the North Coast 500 and I went up the east side I went on the North Coast and then I dropped down did the west coast and then obviously just finished sky and um it's been beautiful it's been really beautiful and I just want to thank everyone for supporting me to allow me to do that amazing trip and I really really hoped you enjoyed the video series this is probably the last one I'm guessing I just really hope you enjoyed it and this will be the final wrap up of my North Coast 500 series and thank you so much if you've watched them all if you haven't already go back and watch them would mean a lot and I'm really excited to reveal what else I've got coming up this year it's really exciting and I'm just trying to make it the best year as possible I really really want it to be a good year and I want it to be full of happy memories brilliant people good morning it is my final Day filming and I've just come to wrap the video up so I've spent the last month in Scotland exploring all the nooks and cranny and exploring the North Coast 500 and the Beautiful areas in between it has been absolutely beautiful I've had Divine weather and I've learned so much on this trip it's been really really wholesome I am going to be spending the next few days in Glenco I'm on my way to do a swim in the sea which is going to be very cold with a couple of friends here in gleno and then I'll be heading down to the lakes for a week Etc so I won't be filming for a little while because I've been filming every day for 3 weeks I'm going to have a little bit of a break and get some editing done catch up on editing because I've got a whole lot of videos to edit and put on here for you guys so I won't be filming for the next week or so but thank you so so much for watching this video I really hope you enjoyed it I've loved my time up here all of sky was incredible so thanks again for watching thank you to all my wonderful patrons for making this possible who are listening in the description take care and see you on the next video

Channel: Girl Outdoors

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Keywords: girl outdoors, women who travel, landrover conversion, living in a landrover, women who explore solo, overlanding, solo women explorers, Nc500, isle of Skye, Scottish highlands, Scotland, girl outdoors Becky, overlanding Scotland highlands, off grid 4x4 Land Rover, Land Rover discovery conversion

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Length: 38min 2sec (2282 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 21 2024