The magnificent view east towards Kintail from the Bealach Ratagain, the high point on the road from Shiel Bridge to Glenelg in Lochalsh. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenelg/glenelg/index.html

#Scotland #Kintail #BealachRatagain #Glenelg #Lochalsh

Attractive Dornie in Lochalsh, now bypassed by the main road and best known for neighbouring Eilean Donan Castle, but once a terminus for ferries crossing Loch Long and Loch Duich. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dornie/dornie/index.html

#Scotland #Dornie #LochLong #LochDuich #Lochalsh #Kintail

The magnificent view east towards Kintail from the Bealach Ratagain, the high point on the road from Shiel Bridge to Glenelg in Lochalsh. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenelg/glenelg/index.html

#Scotland #Kintail #BealachRatagain #Glenelg #Lochalsh

Loch Druich: the Lull Before the Storm

Last night, we found ourselves upon the shores of Loch Druich, that serene lull before the delightful chaos of Storm Ashley. One could not help but note the poetic irony of fleeing eastward from nature’s wrath, only to reflect on a past replete with violence.
Loch Druich, naturally, is more than just a postcard. It is the reluctant witness to history’s less picturesque moment ...

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Dun Telve: An Ancient Scottish Broch

The Glenelg Brochs, so-called, are of course not actually in Glenelg at all. They are, if one insists on accuracy, in the smaller Gleann Beag, but such a trifling detail is likely of no interest to the modern tourist, who seeks spectacle over precision. Here, there are two of these ancient towers to be found, though a lesser known third lurks further up the valley—Dùn Brugaig, f ...

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The Saddle (plus 3 outlying Tops) and Sgùrr na Sgine in Kintail. Took 2 days with a high level camp at the bealach between them, so as to get some Moray-and-me time.

- Looking west from The Saddle towards the 3 outlying tops we went over.
- the trig point on The Saddle.
- Sgùrr na Sgine summit.
- The Saddle and the Forcan Ridge from the bealach.

#HikingWithDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Kelpie #Scotland #Highlands #Munros #Kintail #TheSaddle #SgurrNaSgine

305 years ago today. Jacobites and Spanish marines lost the Battle of Glen Shiel on 10 June 1719, the culmination of an ill-fated incursion intended to divert government forces away from an already cancelled invasion of southern Britain. More pics and info https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenshiel/battle/index.html

#Scotland #OnThisDay #GlenShiel #BattleOfGlenShiel #Jacobites #Kintail #UndiscoveredScotland

Attractive Dornie in Lochalsh, now bypassed by the main road and best known for neighbouring Eilean Donan Castle, but once a terminus for ferries crossing Loch Long and Loch Duich. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dornie/dornie/index.html

#Scotland #Dornie #LochLong #LochDuich #Lochalsh #Kintail #UndiscoveredScotland

The magnificent view east towards Kintail from the Bealach Ratagain, the high point on the road from Shiel Bridge to Glenelg in Lochalsh. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenelg/glenelg/index.html

#Scotland #Kintail #BealachRatagain #Glenelg #Lochalsh #UndiscoveredScotland

Winter camping - 1983

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