Stunning Pictures of Scotland

[pogofish]

I'm guessing that bus doesn't make it

It did - regularly! Many of the old Highland bus routes went over roads and tracks that would have modern drivers shitting themselves and many of the buses were one-offs built to withstand the rigours of their specific routes - I can just remember going over that road - the old Devils Elbow in a Hillman Minx when I was very young - Early 1970s? The car barely made it and we had to take a stop at the top to let it cool because the engine could barely cope. I think they were building the new road/smoothing the gradients a bit at that time - although even the modern road is still pretty steep.

 

[geminisnake]

I'm guessing that bus doesn't make it

Yes they did, it was a regular tour route. That road isn't public anymore, it got rerouted years ago. I knew where it was instantly. Don't see how it can be the highest public road when the Applecross road is higher, but hubby thinks that road wasn't tarmaked(sp?) at the time.

 

[equationgirl]

Ha. Highland buses always made it

 

[pogofish]

Don't see how it can be the highest public road when the Applecross road is higher, but hubby thinks that road wasn't tarmaked(sp?) at the time.

My mother cycled over that road in her youth (40s/50s) - in its pre-tarmac state. She remembers it as like cycling-up a riverbed!

There was also a higher still public road - but that was closed-off by the Beauly-Affric Hydro scheme after 1947 and only part of it still survives as a service road for the scheme.

 

[weepiper]

Corryvreckan

In Irish and Scottish mythology, the Cailleach is a divine hag, a creatrix, and possibly an ancestral deity or deified ancestor... On the west coast of Scotland, the Cailleach ushers in winter by washing her great plaid (Gaelic: féileadh mòr) in the Whirlpool of Coire Bhreacain. This process is said to take three days, during which the roar of the coming tempest is heard as far away as twenty miles (32 km) inland. When she is finished, her plaid is pure white and snow covers the land

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Ha. Highland buses always made it

I was just having horrible images in my head of sitting at the back of that bus and it just kept tipping, tipping, tipping further and further back Folk (and buses) were obviously made of sterner stuff then.

 

[JimW]

....When she is finished, her plaid is pure white and snow covers the land...

She wants to bottle that and get on to the folk at persil, tho probably have to do something about the three-day wash cycle

 

[weepiper]

Spot the castle

 

[FiFi]

Thank you for the thread, folks.
I am now very, very homesick!

 

[weepiper]

Couple of sunsets I took with a camera phone

Edinburgh



The Borders, near Kelso



Edinburgh again

 

[ska invita]

Fingal's Cave, Staffa

one of the western isles is made up of a similar kind of rock - anyone know what its called? Ive got a postcard at home somewhere. It looks amazing sticking out of the sea

 

[ska invita]

Thank you for the thread, folks.
I am now very, very homesick!

this is what it really looks like

 

[FiFi]

this is what it really looks like

If I'm sitting in Pub, by a fire, with a whisky watching that rain I'm fine.

 

[weepiper]

Stoer Bay, near Lochinver

 

[ska invita]

Scotland this morning

 

[weepiper]

Dunbar

 

[ska invita]

another

 

[bi0boy]

 

[heinous seamus]

View attachment 43892

That must be Loch Morlich

 

[bi0boy]

That must be Loch Morlich

Thanks I'd been wondering where I took those photos. I just remember it was on the way to Inverness from somewhere else.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I grew up near here:

Luskentrye on Harris.

 

[alan_]

where is this?
It looks as if you hang about there you would turn green yourself

 

[ska invita]

where is this?
It looks as if you hang about there you would turn green yourself

the land of photoshop probably

 

[weepiper]

Newhaven

 

[weepiper]

South Queensferry

 

[Fedayn]

The view from my old living room, I loved it.

 

[heinous seamus]

Here's a few of my own favourites:

This one was taken in the Inveroran / Black Mount area:

The Waverley at Rothesay:

Loch Etive:

 

[weepiper]

Edinburgh castle last night just after midnight, with noctilucent clouds.

 

[albionism]

I've been going to EDI every year for about 30 years to visit the in-laws, this is always my favourite view:

(Mrs D will not be amused!)

 

[Tankus]

Some epic photos .....