I offered to start this Topic before my own trip to Scotland, so thought I'd better get on with it.
The idea - somewhere to bring together people's accounts of their visits, photos, useful information, questions from those planning a trip - a sort of scrapbook really.
I still need to write up my own visit, but anyone is welcome to post material or links here.
No I haven't Tiger but I shall get on to Amazon in a little while. Here is Loch an Eilean exactly a year later and not a spot of snow or ice on Boxing Day just past.
Lmac. Oh that picture bring back memories. Apparently the castle featured in one of the Jacobite rebellions (The '45 I think).
BTW I find this tool http://www.usedbooksearch.co.uk/ one of the best in searching for used books.
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Here's a wee quote from the book by Roy Dennis... Ospreys.
"in Strathspey Dunbar's brother Lewis was harrying the remaining Ospreys in that district. In 1851, he walked through the night to Loch an Eilein, near Aviemore, where Ospreys nested on the deserted castle"...
They'll be back.. it may take a while but... they'll be back.
All for one and one for all.
Lovely pics Lmac, thanks!
Loch an Eilean looks so different covered in ice and snow.
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Unknown said: Here's a wee quote from the book by Roy Dennis... Ospreys. "in Strathspey Dunbar's brother Lewis was harrying the remaining Ospreys in that district. In 1851, he walked through the night to Loch an Eilein, near Aviemore, where Ospreys nested on the deserted castle"... They'll be back.. it may take a while but... they'll be back.
There is no way you would get me trying that swim in the middle of summer never mind in the dead of night. I think that Dunbar eventually went to Australia and how the ospreys must have rejoiced. It did not save them at the end of the day.
I agree Tiger on both counts... Ospreys rejoyce and no way would I swim to that Island..
Had I been around I'd have drowned him..
It feels really strange standing in the same spot Dunbar trod all those years ago.
LOL black jag, I think a man like that would have taken some drowning! :)
It's all history ChloeB... It's what shapes us..
"If you forget the past you are destined to repeat it"...
A guy I work with came up with that one day.. I don't think he was the original but it has a good lesson in it.
Ah but remember Dunbar was only doing what he was asked to do. The real villian was his paymaster St John.