Lewis & Harris by Campervan - The Best Island in Scotland | Scotland, Outer Hebrides travel guide
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- Planning to travel around Lewis and Harris in a Campervan or Motorhome? This one's for you. In this final video of our VanLife adventure around the Outer Hebrides, we take in, what we think, is the best island. Full of wild adventure, wildlife, incredible scottish roadtrips, ancient history and more. Check it out - and let us know if you have any questions about out trip!
Links mentioned in the video:
- Foraging for seaweed responsibly: gallowaywildfoods.com/an-intr...
- Campervan travel links from Visit Outer Hebrides: www.visitouterhebrides.co.uk/...
Contents:
00:00 Intro
01:51 Luskentyre Beach
04:57 North Harris Eagle Observatory
08:30 The most scenic drive to Lewis!
09:21 Cliff Beach
10:47 Seaweed foraging
13:21 Maguesta Sea Stacks
13:34 Gallen Head
15:21 Eagle spotted!
17:02 Reef Beach
18:00 Bosta / Bostadh Beach Bronze Age House
19:08 Callanish Stones
About us:
We're Jack and Jo, and that scruffy little guy is Frank our adventure dog. Since 2020 we've been adventuring in our tiny home on wheels around the UK and Europe, as we seek an alternative way of living
We haven't looked back since.
Check out our website for travel itineraries, VanLife tips and more on us, and chuck us an email if you have any questions:
www.thesewildjourneys.com
thesewildjourneys@gmail.com
Thanks for watching everyone! We are now in Ireland, and our first video from our Wild Atlantic Way trip, can be seen here: czcams.com/video/ALOThGCFA7Y/video.html
Loved this. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you! It's a beautiful part of the world, maybe our favourite!
Marked this down to visit thank you it is an amazing area and some lovely beaches. Great video 👍
Awesome! We love the Outer Hebrides, we need to go back soon!
Brilliant video and a reminder of a wonderful holiday on Harris a few years ago. Really want to go back now!
Ahh thanks for watching Donna ♥️! Such a beautiful, special island 🙌!
I've really loved this blog guy's i can't wait to experience it next September.
Thanks! September will be an awesome time to go hopefully, still got some sunny warmth, but less crowds (not that it gets too crowded 😅!)
Absolutely super video.....👍👍👍
Thanks for watching - hope you're good!? 🤙
@@TheseWildJourneys Yes I’m good thanks…🤙👍🏻
sick video guys! I'm heading over to Lewis and harris in spring on a surf trip, will be using some of the camp sites you've mentioned!
Awesome! Enjoy, hope the weather treats you good! And remember to bring physical cash for those spots - there's no card machine, just a letterbox on a fence post 😅!
Heyyyy concratulations to the 1000 subscribers ❤️ u well deserved it and a lot of subscribers more. We really like your videos! So great adventure and storytelling again! Thanks for sharing it :) We will safe some spots of it for our next trip! So funny u went to ireland - thats exactly what we also have in mind :) We wish u the greatest time there.
Lovely Greetings from Senegal
Hey guys! Sorry for the delay in responding! Thanks so much for the kind words ♥️♥️! We're sure you'll love Ireland if you loved Scotland, it's just got increasingly amazing each week and the further we've traveled! Hope you're enjoying Senegal and you're big adventure!
@@TheseWildJourneys Good morning! No pressure on repsonding! You are on big travels, so enjoy that and dont hurry for the online world - there is no need!
We are very excited about your upcoming Video
Another Fig Roll fan here!! 😁 Great vid, just decided to hit there in October 😜 .... JP
Haha, we're all about the fig rolls! Enjoy in October, it's an incredible place!
that place really beautiful and fresh
So beautiful!
Your van is beautiful ❤love your video good to know about the vegan food in Lewis
Love Lewis - the community shops also (suprisingly!) cater for all diets - even in the middle of nowhere. We're looking forward to heading back there in a few week :)!
Great video. Loving the Hebrides and cant wait to see your Wild atlantic way. Also need a bit more Frank footage!!
Haha! More Frank footage? We're very sure that can be arranged! Thanks for watching!
thank you
Amazing videos
Thank you! And thanks for watching!
Love this! New questions and thoughts:
1. What is bardcore?
2. Do you have to have cash on you for these honesty boxes?
3. Are you that old now that you can't stay up till midnight for a sunset?
4. ...what was on your foot jack?
5. Was the seaweed nice?
6. Jo saying what we're all thinking 'oh here we go again'
7. Reef beach looks like its straight out of Aus!
8. Harris gin is sooooo good
That's all for now!
Hahah
1. Imagine your favourite pop hits, reimagined and played through medieval instruments..
2. Always have cash with you!
3. Definitely, the gin didn't help though
4. Hahaha might have to rewath this..?
5. Delightful, I'll forage some next time we're with you!
6. 🤣
7. Crazy ain't it!
8. So good - no hangover! And it's infused with sugar kelp, which we ended up foraging!
You captured some beautiful shots in that film maybe the best I've seen yet .Tips for Ireland don't wear a Rangers top .
Thanks for watching, we loved it here! And ha! Good tip 😜!
Cool video Professor X
haha - I don't know what this means, but thank you!
Haha, I was already saying 'Texture like sun' before the words came out your mouth, Jack 😄 So lucky with the weather, the beaches looked amazing!
So lucky with the weather! You guys caught some of it too right - infact we need to watch your next video! ☀️
@@TheseWildJourneys yeah, I think we were there at almost the exact same time. It just started howling wind and rain for the last few days on Harris and Lewis, it was so amazing before that!
@@GoingTheWholeHogg Soooo amazing! I think we're always gonna go back at the same time as this year. We did it the year prior, and we had a week of sunshine then, too.
So beautiful when the suns shining!
Great video all. Think we were up there roughly the same time. Stunning weather. I think your eagle was a Sea Eagle based on the shape of it’s tail.
Incredible weather! So lucky! And yep, I think you were right, we spotted it close to Ardroil Beach, so would make sense! Thanks for watching!
Hope you had an awesome time too?
@@TheseWildJourneys Fantastic. Only our second time on the Outer Hebs. Brilliant wildlife, really friendly people, and the best beaches I’ve ever seen. Looking forward to your Irish adventures. Hope you have a great time 👍
Haha, spotting the Eagles is a bit like spotting the otters, they just appear, likewise with the Sea Eagles, great videos
Haha, yep, I think that's what we're learning!
That was a Sea Eagle my friend. The barn door x
For sure!! 🙌
Hi. Love your trip on the island. It’s unforced us snd we’ve booked the ferries snd go at the end of March. We want to spend a couple of nights at the camping spot arguing bay and on benbecula past seal point. Have you got any directions for those. We arrive in Stornaway and then head across to of bay
Hey! We're no good at directions - sorry! But google maps should get you there - there's not too many roads on Lewis & Harris :)!
Lewis and Harris is next on our trip list! How long would you recommend spending there? We will be wild camping so flexible where we stay ☺️
It's such an incredible place to visit! We've been twice now, and have got pretty lucky with the weather! (It's not always this sunny and beautiful!)
We did a week in total on Lewis and Harris this time, and we managed to fit in everything we wanted to, including a few rest days! If you have longer, then over 2 and a bit weeks you could squeeze in the Uists too!
Please read the rules for visiting in motorhomes or campervans on the outer hebrides . You’ll see that there’s no wildcamping allowed in motorhomes or campervans. You’re asked to book somewhere to stay before you come. People parked in the Machair last year and destroyed parts of it. . The council have provided places to park up for a minimal amount t and also Aires. There were people emptying toilet cassettes in ditches and in lay-bys so the islanders are pretty fed up now. They also removed gates and parked on crofts, acrosss croft gates which was rectified by them being moved by farming machinery. Just tonight there were 6 parked at the local beach taking up the carpark. You might be lucky and not he approached by the locals or the police but as it says in the info there are some beautiful park up spots to be had and I’d encourage everyone to use them. You’ll get people saying oh we had no problem but that is changing because of the behaviour of some sorry
www.visitouterhebrides.co.uk/planning-your-trip/motorhomes
loved the video. Just a tip, if you want to see whales and dolphins then tiumpan head on the east coast is where to go, there's residents that patrol that coast
Ah amazing - great tip! Thanks!
Looks fantastic but you need to drop the 'e' from whisky!!!
An astute spot! I blame the American translation software, either that, or we've become naturalised to the spelling in Ireland already!
What pub did you go to in Stornaway, or can you. It remember? 🥴😉
The Harbour View (I think!) - nice little spot!
How have you gone on with midges?
It's been alright so far! Only one evening when they were flying about, but apart from that, by the coast it's been ok! 🤞
Which month did you travel ?
We were here early June time, having been to the outer Hebrides twice now, during June, we reckon that's a pretty good time to visit!
its quite a pity that people like you, make a video then ruin it with noise, I suspect that you call it music. such videos without noise/music are the best, although I should not imagine that you understand, or appreciate natural sounds.
Hi Ron - thanks for contributing to the discovery of this video by commenting on it!
It might surprise you that other people have different tastes when it comes to creating a video. And, before writing a comment, you must understand the difficulties in "recording nature sounds"
Although perhaps you don't understand or appreciate how hard that can be on a windy island without specialist recording equipment? Of course, unlike you, we wouldn't say such mean things to a stranger on the internet.
Hope you have a lovely day and discover some more videos that you prefer!