Scottish Highlands 2005

Inverness to Plockton and Skye, ferry to Harris and Lewis, ferry back to mainland and Lochinver
Starting from Inverness, past Loch Ness to Skye; ferry to Harris and Lewis; ferry back to Ullapool, Lochinver and return to Inverness  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Gorse on the bonnie banks of Loch Ness  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 This might be Loch Ness; then again, it might not be.  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Glen Shiel  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 An old stone bridge in Glen Shiel  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Wild rhododendrons along the roadside!  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Eilean Donan Castle  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Plockton  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Highland longhorn cattle  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 The Isle of Skye, on the road to Elgol  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Elgol, Isle of Skye, view towards the Black Cuillins  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Arrival of the Bella Jane, which will take us across to Loch Coruisk at the foot of the Black Cuillins  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Seals  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 At the foot of the Black Cuillins  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 The short "river" (shortest in Scotland) from Loch Coruisk flows into Loch Scavaig  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Crossing Loch Scavaig, returning to Elgol  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 The Red Cullins  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 The Red Cullins  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Portree, Isle of Skye  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
In the distance, the Old Man of Storr, north of Portree on the Isle of Skye  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Old Man of Storr  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Old Man of Storr  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 View towards the Scottish mainland from the Old Man of Storr  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Quiet, deserted road, west from Portree  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Descending toward Fiskavaig Bay  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Dun Beag, ruins of an Iron-Age broch  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Dun Beag  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Akelei, colombines, ancolie  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Black Cuillins near Glen Brittle  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Loch Brittle (a bay)  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 The Old Man of Storr in low-lying cloud  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Mealt Falls  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 The Quirang  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Quirang rock formation know as "The Prison"  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 View south from the Quirang  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
"The Prison"  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Uig Bay  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 The Tote Stone, Clach Ard, a Pictish symbol stone on the Trotternish Peninsula  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 The Island of Harris, one of the Western Isles and home of Harris tweed  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
An orchid on Harris  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Beach on way to ruined chapel near Taobh Tuath, Harris  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 View from ruined chapel near Taobh Tuath  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Sea pinks growing in ruins of chapel  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Looks like an old one.  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 A lapwing on the machair (low-lying raised beach,conducive to the growth of certain types of plants)  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Harris by night  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Western shore of Great Bernera Island at Bostadh, Loch Roag  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Western shore of Great Bernera Island at Bostadh, Loch Roag  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Replica of Iron-Age house at Bostadh, Great Bernera  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Tourist on beach at Bostadh on Loch Roag  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Abandoned croft in valley above Bostadh  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Abandoned croft  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Valley above Bostadh  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 One of the beautiful Calanais standing stones  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Calanais standing stones, probably set up by Neolithic peoples between -3000 and -1500  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
View south from Calanais standing stones  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Calanais standing stones at sunset  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Calanais standing stones at sunset  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Calanais standing stones at sunset  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Dun Carloway, Isle of Lewis, a broch, built between -100 and +100  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Dun Carloway  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Cliffs at the Butt of Lewis, the island's northernmost point  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Butt of Lewis, lighthouse  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
Leaving Stornoway, Island of Lewis  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Gardens with rhododendrons at Stornoway  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Walk to Kirkaig Falls, near Lochinver  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Kirkaig Falls, near Lochinver  Scottish Highlands, June 2005
View over Lochinver, with Suilven prominent in the background  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Lochinver and Suilven  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 Gorse along the roadside  Scottish Highlands, June 2005 The Falls of Shin  Scottish Highlands, June 2005