User:Igillies12/Applecross

Tourism
Recently Applecross has experienced an increase in tourism for those looking for a place to hike, kayak, fish, and cycle. The North Coast 500 cycling route crosses the Bealach Na Ba pass and goes through Applecross along the coastal road.

Wildlife
Many native Scottish animals can be found in Applecross including mammals like red deer, pine martens, otters, water voles, blue hare, foxes, a rare wildcat, and Pipistrelle and Daubenton's bats. Birds like Tawny and barn owls, white tailed and golden eagles, great skua, arctic tern, great spotted woodpeckers, song thrush, bullfinches, golden plover, skylark, merlin, greenshank, dunlin, red and, occasionally the rarer, black grouse, dotterel, and rock ptarmigan. In terms of marine life there are common seals near the shore as well as basking sharks, minke whales, porpoises, and bottlenose dolphins. Adders can also be found here.

History
In 1975 the settlement was connected via a coastal road.