Photos 2012

Cloddymoss and Clubin

Cloddymoss and Clubin is an area of coastal forest just east of Nairn and on the Moray Firth. We spent the afternoon walking some of the tracks there – and having lunch.

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this represents the village of Clubin which was buried by the sand dunes

Our walk took in the “Dragonfly Pool” – where we saw several very colourful Dragonflies darting around.

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…and the dragonflies.

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Hector MacDonald Monument and Lunch

Who was Hector MacDonald? He is the Scots solider shown on the label of a bottle of Camp Coffee – and he came from near Dingwall.

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this is from the Hector MacDonald exhibit in the Dingwall Museum

For more info see here.

There is a monument to him on a hill above Dingwall – we walked up there today.

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Dingwall on the way up

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The Monument


Jeremy cooked lunch today – from scratch.

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Pork with herb gravy and carrots – served with Italian bread, and it was delicious.

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Isle of Skye

As we were at Eilean Donan Castle it was only 10 mile to the Isle of Skye. Last time I went to Skye I used a ferry from Kyle of Lochalsh – today of course we drove through there and used the bridge.

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Jeremy took the above photo as we crossed the bridge.

Kyleakin

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Broadford

Where the sun came out.

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above Beinn na Caillich

If you go to Broadford try the Beinn na Caillich Cafe it was very good.

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