Dexter's Scottish Adventures.

This was an epic adventure for a small terrier, I’ve never been to Scotland but my human had done lots of training with me to build me up gradually for the mountains.  On my first day in Scotland I had a chance to scamper around off the lead in a small forest, then the next day I ran up my first named Scottish summit.  Knock Farril is only 218 metres high but the view from the top is great, east to the Cromarty Firth and north to Ben Wyvis.

Next day I continued to travel north and sailed on a ship from Ullapool to Stornoway. Now as you know I’m quite a nautical little chap (experienced at canoeing and sailing) but this was a bit bigger than the boats I’m used to. My human even drove the car onto the ship then I got out and scampered up the stairs to a special area for dogs.  I went out on deck and had a sniff around before going back inside for a sleep. Nothing much happened then for a while, I got back in the car and my human drove off the ship then I was somewhere else new.  I was on an island on the Outer Hebrides, also known as the Western Isles, on the outer edge of Europe!

 

The next week was spent on an island called Lewis, I think it’s designed especially for dogs with huge beaches where I could run around and swim in the Atlantic (a bit cold) and the photographs show some of the places I went to for walks and runs.  I went to an Iron Age House at Bosta.

This was a busy day on the beach there were four humans on 2 km of beach!

 This was the first beach I ran on after a run across the headland and on lovely grass.

Watching the sunset over the Atlantic.

One day on a walk I saw a Golden Eagle but it was very high in sky.  On another walk I tried to climb a mountain called Clisham (799m) on the Isle of Harris, as you can see from the picture the weather was awful (low cloud and F5-6 wind) so at 500 metres my human turned back.

Golden Eagle - Harris.

There's a mountain up there somewhere.

From Lewis my adventures continued with some great walks and runs in Easter Ross, I climbed my first Corbett (a Scottish summit over 762m and below 914.4m).  This was Carn Chuinneag (839m), it was quite a long walk (18 km) but only the last 4 km of climbing is steep and the walk along Glen Calvie to start of the climb is really easy.

 

Glen Calvie & Carn Chuinneag (west summit)

Carn Chuinneag(west summit)

Carn Chuinneag summit

Spot the terrier...

My first Munro (a summit over 914.4m) was Beinn Ghlas (1103m)  closely followed by Ben Lawers 1214m) , the views were excellent when the cloud cleared.  This walk was much easier than my human expected it to be, for me it was really easy because I was a super-fit terrier by the end of the holiday.

My first Munro!

Cloudy, wet and windy - Beinn Ghlas.

Cloudy & windy - Ben Lawers.

Woofs and wags, Dexter!