365 Project – Day 72

Today I visited Morar to take photographs on the beautiful silver sand beaches. Sadly these are best seen when the sun is shining, which today it wasn’t. 13 March 2014

Scotland 6

Today has been another simply wonderful day, if I’d packed them I would have worn shorts. In Scotland in March! I walked along the old Military Road from Kinlochleven towards Fort William. The military roads were built by the English at a time when our relationship with our Scottish neighbours was less cordial than now,…

365 Project – Day 71

I make no excuse for another landscape, when you have weather like this in Scotland in March you have to seize the moment. Loch Leven from the road to Kinlochleven. 12 March 2014

Scotland 5

Today we have had a simply beautiful day, wonderful scenery and brilliant light. We decided to go to the Ardnamurchan Peninsula to look for a very rare American Black Duck which had been sighted near Salen, but not by us. I’m not a birder myself but my friends are. Anyway the scenery was gorgeous and…

Scotland 4

Well, what a difference a day makes. After awful yesterday we woke to this today. and yes, that is blue sky. I went out for a walk today along Loch Etive. This requires a drive down Glen Etive first but it is a lovely drive with great scenery and wild life. I parked at the…

Scotland 3

None of us were surprised that we woke to low cloud, wind and rain; this is Scotland and it is only March, what should we expect? As I’ve been wet and/or cold on mountains throughout the United Kingdom, various places in Europe and in North Africa I no longer feel the need to do it…

365 Project – Day 68

Two days travelling followed by a very convivial dinner guarantees a good night’s sleep. The weather forecast had not been good so I was disappointed but not surprised to wake up to this It was every bit as awful as it looked; cold, wet and windy. Rest of the week should be better. 09 March…

Scotland 2

Well, my day got off to a good start with an excellent breakfast at Cranston’s in Penrith. This was after a good night’s sleep and an early exit from Patterdale. Cruising gently northward on the motorway I noticed a green Renault Kangoo racing up behind me and saw it was my friends Pete and Sue,…