Scottish Highlands 2004

From Inverness to Plockton, up to Gairloch, on to Ullapool, northward to the Orkneys and back to Inverness
Our itinerary started and ended at Inverness Airport.  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Urquhart Castle in typical Scottish weather  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Eilean Donan Castle  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Tourist at Eilean Donan Castle  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Highland longhorn cattle  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Highland longhorn cattle  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Lunch (delicious) at Plockton  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Bealach-na-Ba, or 'Cattle Pass', at a height of 629 metres  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Bealach-na-Ba  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Bealach-na-Ba  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Shieldaig  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Beautiful Glen Torridon  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Loch Maree  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Loch Maree viewed from the Beinn Eighe Woodland Trail  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Sea near Gairloch  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Gairloch  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Coast north of Gairloch  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Rua Reidh lighthouse (pronunciation: Rooa Ray)  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Coast near Rua Reidh  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Coast near Rua Reidh  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Small beach on the coast near Rua Reidh  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Coast near Rua Reidh  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Gairloch from the north near sunset  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Heather in the Flowerdale Valley, Gairloch  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Lilies at the Inverewe Gardens  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Rua lighthouse, near Ullapool  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Fishing boats in the port of Ullapool at sunset  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Dun Canna, an ancient fortification -- or what's left of it  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Coast west of Dun Canna  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Stac Pollaidh (alternate spelling: Stac Polly) - 613 m, which we climbed  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Stac Pollaidh  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Path up Stac Pollaidh  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Near the top  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 View from Stac Pollaidh towards Suilven  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 View from the top (well, almost) of Stac Pollaidh, with Suilven and Cul Mor (capped in clouds)  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 The peak of Stac Pollaidh  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Afterwards, it's shrouded in clouds  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Suilven seen from the road northwards  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Ardvreck Castle  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 A deer seen near the bridge at Kylesku  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
We think this is probably Sail Gharbh, 808m.  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Scourie Bay  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Border collie at Scourie Bay  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Wall near Kyle of Durness  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Kyle of Durness  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Looking out of Smoo Cave, near Durness  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Thistle and yellow on the north coast  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 North coast  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Ben Loyal seen from the Kyle of Tongue  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 A Pictish cross on the Farr Stone at Bettyhill  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 The Old Man of Hoy, Hoy, Orkney Islands  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Stones of Stennes, Mainland (one of the Orkney Islands)  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Stenness  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Prehistoric stones of the Ring of Brodgar  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Skara Brae, remains of a Neolithic village dating back to -3000  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Skara Brae  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Skara Brae, with Skaill House in the background  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Yesnaby Cliffs  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Maes Howe, a Neolithic burial chamber dating from around -3000  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Interior of Maes Howe  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Steep stairs leading down into Mine Howe, a recently excavated Iron Age mound  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 The Broch of Gurness, from about -100  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Broch of Gurness  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Entrance to the Broch of Gurness  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Interior of the Broch of Gurness  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Landscape of Mainland (principal Orkney Island)  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 The Ring of Brodgar  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Ring of Brodgar  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004
Tourist and standing stone at the Ring of Brodgar  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Clava Cairns, east of Inverness  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Clava Cairns  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004 Clava Cairns  Scottish HIghlands, August 2004Scottish HIghlands, August 2004