Wild Country Helm Compact 3 Tent

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The company has vast experience 'in the field' but just after they received the commission from BBC Scotland in 2020, a very different spectacular curve-ball hit everyone in the form of Covid-19. TV production was allowed to continue in Scotland but under tight restrictions. If you are on a country … those people will be feeling the heat more but they go somewhere where there's water. You can wild camp in Loch Lomond, but during certain months of the year (when it’s very busy), you’ll need to obtain a permit. If the car park is full, then the community also runs a couple of other motorhome and campervan spaces just down the road in the little town of Glencaple.

Applecross is a wild and rugged area on the NC500, but it’s clamping down on wild camping in certain areas. Further South as the autumn migration gets underway, the lowland’s greatest wildlife gathering is taking place. At Montrose Basin 85,000 pink footed geese are returning, with nearly 20% of the entire world population arriving here, roosting out on the water and mudflats. Many will continue further south, but tens of thousands will remain here in the lowlands throughout the winter. At the highest point on the Buchan coast lies Scotland’s largest mainland gannet colony. Here thousands of birds breed throughout the summer months in an epic wildlife spectacle.

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Despite that, these sleek predators are very difficult to film and normally film-makers are delighted even to see one of these largely nocturnal animals in the daylight, but in summer females are often more active in the day-time feeding their kits. And Fergus chanced upon an active and happy family, which is another magical sequence in the series. From the Shetland Isles in the North to the Inner Hebrides in the South, these isles are teeming with life. In the North-West, sitting low in the Atlantic, are the remote Monach Isles, they’ve been uninhabited since the 1940s when the last people left these shores. And now every autumn the white sand beaches host the largest breeding colony of grey seals in Europe. More than 10,000 pups are born each year and they have just a few short weeks to get ready for independence. The local Stagecoach bus number 39/M39 service coming from Carrbridge/Aviemore or Newtonmore stops at the bottom of our entrance road – you will then have a walk of around half a mile to our pay kiosks. Our stop is between Kincraig and Kingussie. The great thing about wild camping here is that all the spots for motorhomes, tents, and campervans are all signposted, so you know exactly where you can park legally.

So I stayed put and it paid off, there was lovely stuff with mothers and their pups. And then amazing full-on drama with battling bulls." That means taking your rubbish with you, your belongings, and ensuring you don’t ruin the environment you’re staying at. Why should you wild camp in Scotland?The election was called after the fourth and final coalition of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigned in July after failing to agree to measures to rein in migration. Further North lies Scotland’s longest river, the Tay, journeying for over 100 miles from source to Sea. As it passes the mighty Tay Reedbed, the river slows and widens dramatically. The reedbed stretches for more than 20 miles along the north shore here and is home to Scotland’s largest population of the rare bearded tit, which only arrived here in the early 1990s. Further upstream in Perth, Scotland’s first urban population of beavers can now be found. These industrious rodents have recently returned from extinction, after an absence of over 400 years. More than 1000 of them can now be found throughout the Tay catchment, shaping wetlands that are teeming with life though also sometimes coming into conflict with farmers. The team did make it out but with bad weather looming, they had to get all their overhead drone footage, on their first proper day of the island when they knew they were going to have some sunshine.

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Getting to the Monach Isles was particularly fraught as there are no jetties or indeed any infrastructure there and passage to the island has to be negotiated by seafarers who are totally familiar with the shore and very aware of dangerous skerries to avoid… And the man, who was due to take them there – one of the few with this knowledge – went down with Covid. Mr Wilders' victory marks a sharp lurch to the right for the EU's fifth largest economy, which will be viewed with trepidation in Brussels, as the PVV has promised a referendum on the Netherlands' membership of the European Union. Located a 30-minute drive from the centre of Glasgow in Lochwinnoch this beautiful wild camping spot is located by a lake and old castle remains.