Taking Things Slow | Van Life on the Isle of Mull: Part 3

Our time in the isle of Mull was coming to an end. It had involved some incredible scenery, wild beaches and some cheeky little puffins. For our last evening and day on the island we headed back to where we had began our trip at Loch Buie for a slower paced day just taking in the beauty, peace and tranquility of Mull. Maybe two or one? Two. I'll have two because we've just got half two. Go my dinner. Something I love about travelling in the van is actually the invitation it brings to slow down a little. Of course we love to see and do things while travelling but equally I love those evenings just cooking together, watching the sky change colour and falling asleep to a gentle sea Is that good? This looks really good. Oh my god. It's spoiling us. This is Athena's new healthy regime. If the baby doesn't want cocoa puffs the baby will get Nutella. The baby already had cocoa puffs. Of course it did. I am good at making pancakes. Look at it. Javi's practicing dad duties by engineering this pretty amazing shelter for Oslo and for me. Um this is a dog lead with a rock on top of it. Bag, rock on top of it. A stick. Yeah. Stick wedged in. Bag. Is that a pack mat? I don't know. Stick. That's a heavy wind. Dog. Counted weight. Very happy little dog. I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to Jackery for sponsoring this video and for making this trip and the last three videos possible. Jackery make portable power stations for the outdoors with solar generated power that you can take with you on any car or van camping adventure. We have the Jackery 500 and 100 watt solar panel which we've been using for our past few van trips and it's been a real game changer for us to be able to keep up with work, emails and editing on the road. We've used it to charge our camera batteries, phones and laptops and have been able to harness the free and natural power of the sun to do so. 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So it's our last day on Mull today and last night we parked up back at the spot we parked on our first night at Loch Bowie. Came back here because it was super nice it's also fairly near to the ferry port at Craignor and yeah it's just absolutely stunning here it's probably my favourite place we've been to on Mull and we just found it so randomly actually someone messaged me when we got to the island saying oh there's this great park up at the end of Loch Bowie you should go check it out and when we got off the ferry we were like okay yeah we'll just go down there and I really liked it on that first night so yeah ended up back here again and we've just walked around past Moray Castle over to Laggan Sands which is this like wide stretch of beach it's kind of like a light sand and hills and honestly it's amazing there's nobody here it's like a big expanse and there's no one there was a couple when we got here but they've kind of walked around there uh yeah it's incredible I feel like I'm in New Zealand or somewhere I remember traveling on the west coast of New Zealand and it's very wild and there's lots of like stretches of beach surrounded by hills and just nature and it's it really is quite like that it's stunning yeah very very happy to be here um got a few few more hours here today and then we are going to get some lunch at the little tea room post office and then head over to Craig Nord to get our ferry back to the mainland and back home this evening did you have a good snorkel yeah that's fun actually yeah did it does it all fit and stuff yeah yeah yeah the mask is a little bit tight but I just need adjusting yeah uh I saw like a crab burrowing itself into the sand backwards nice and then I saw a whole shawl of like sprats maybe I'm not so sure they're kind of like that's so big yeah and then uh a white bait could have been white bait uh and then like this really like metallic pink and grey crab which must have been like so big nice um and then some very cool looking jellyfish which I didn't want to get too close to uh was it clear then yeah yeah really clear yeah I wish I'd had something to I've got in the van but I know I just like I just forgot yeah jumped out of the other van really quick um but yeah that was awesome I didn't want to stay in too long because obviously I haven't got I haven't got any sun cream or I'm just in shorts but the uh the water temperature is totally totally doable actually yeah having a hood my head started to get quite cold yeah very quickly the hood hot smoked salmon side salad oh