HEN Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell came down out of the hills to the west coast and Loch Duich on their Highland tour in September 1773, they paused at Auchnasheal. You won’t find it on today’s maps, but, then, Auchnasheal was ‘a kind of rural village’ of 20 huts. There they rested and the good doctor divvied out a shilling’s worth of copper coins to the children. For the modern traveller reaching this point, near Shiel Bridge, it is tempting to follow the flow of traffic hurrying along the ‘Road to the Isles’ to Kyle of Lochalsh and over the bridge to the Isle of Skye. Yet a more leisurely deviation to the left onto the single-track road to Glenelg, followed by Johnson and Boswell, will pay handsome dividends and, from spring to autumn, will still allow the traveller to
