Framedlight

After a night of rain the campsite in Arisaig was sodden and the kids were splashing in their wellingtons through the giant puddles that surrounded the awnings. We were now on the homeward stretch of our journey. We travelled towards Genfinnan, stopping by the side of the sea loch, Loch nam Uamh, where Bonnie Prince Charlie first landed on Scottish soil in his ill fated bid to the throne. It was looking particularly dreak. And then on to Glenfinnan. I had forgotten what a horrible place this has become. However the rain meant the piles of tourists were enjoying the home baking in the tea room rather than actually looking at the monument to the spot where Bonnie Prince Charlie first raised his standard. Some rather optimistic placement of solar panels going on here! We walked up the rise behind the cafe to see the viaduct, accompanied by a group of German students shouting Harry Potter. The view was actually pretty good from the top as a ray of light f...

Waking up in the morning on our campsite in Kilchoan, I walked down to the shore to see cloud covering the tip of the coast. The plan for the morning was to visit the deserted village at Glendrian which lies about a mile across a footpath from the road. Just the right distance for Hettie the dog to manage.  We took the road to Sanna and stopped in a lay-by by a small quarry, then took the path. The area is ringed by a row of hills, the site of an ancient caldera. The map reference os  NM480687 The path crosses a shallow river by a set of stepping stones and we saw an adder which moved too fast for me to photograph, and a large beetle. The settlement was only abandoned in the 1940's so the desertion was not on account of the clearances. It is a scheduled monument and contains 19 houses as well as a number of farm buildings. In it's isolated position snuggled up under the hill it was certainly photogenic and I will put some infrared pictures of Glend...