Nice work, Chris, hope you haven't been disturbed by too much activity on
the range (unusually busy at Tain yesterday, I can't imagine why...).
Do please make the trip to Sandwood Bay, it's an easy walk, with
breathtaking results (if it remains windy, probably literally so, but still
worthwhile). You can reward yourselves with a visit to the pie shop in
Lochinver on your way back southwards. Bring me a Chicken and Leek if you
will :-)
My guess is that Meadaidh is pronounced as in Maida Vale, which does not
necessarily mean that the latter is a corruption of Meadaidh Bheil - that
might be taking "Scots Diaspora" to the extreme. This site might be of
interest: http://www.cuhwc.org.uk/page/unofficial-guide-pronouncing-gaelic
And "end of the mountains" sounds right, as it's the same term in
Kinlochbervie - aka Ceann Loch Biorbhaigh.
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 September 2013 10:00
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: [OM] Scottish moorland, loch and mountain
My wife and I are on holiday in the north of Scotland, just southeast of
Cape Wrath, and the weather has been pretty atrocious: high winds, driving
rain and low cloud. We have rented a very decent cottage with a fantastic
view to the south along the Kyle of Durness, but the view has been visible
less often than not, malheureusement.
However, yesterday the rain held off, the cloudbase rose somewhat and the
wind was bearable, albeit gusting over 30kts at times, so we walked to the
other side of the Kyle of Durness, heading southeast along a track for a
couple of miles. During the walk I saw this view and remarked on the
colours of heather, grasses, boulders a mountain. The loch is Loch Meadaidh
(still trying to find out how to pronounce that name) and the mountain is
Beinn Ceannabeinne ("Kinbeyne", I think); Ceannabeinne apparently means
"head, or end, of mountains" and there is a old settlement nearby of that
name:
http://images.threeshoes.biz/Photography/PPD/2013-cb-project-365/i-HMXKKzW/A
The weather should remain fine today, so we are off to Kinlochbervie,
perhaps to walk to Sandwood Bay, on the west coast. The wind should remain
at bearable for a while as well.
Chris
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