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Re: [OM] Scottish moorland, loch and mountain

Subject: Re: [OM] Scottish moorland, loch and mountain
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:08:32 +0100
Thanks, Philippe.

Chris

On 4 Sep 2013, at 13:27, "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I concur to this :-)
> 
> Amitiés
> Philippe, wishing you fairer weather
> 
> 
> Le 4 sept. 13 à 13:59, DZDub a écrit :
> 
>> Very pretty place, Chris.  Excellent composition.
>> 
>> Joel W.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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