Rhonda Bracey: At Random

We had the most beautiful day travelling north from Glasgow today. Sunshine the whole way, except the last couple of minutes around 4pm, just as we were arriving into Fort William. I took well over 140 photos and got some from others too. The scenery was just magic! The enormity of the towering (and glowering) mountains/hills, the geology of it all (volcanoes, glaciation), the insignificance you feel as a human in that landscape. It was all wonderful, especially the area around Glencoe. Wow, just wow! What a place, and what a day to see it. It was cold outside, especially in the wind, but it WAS sunny and mostly cloud-free. You can’t ask for better than that!

Some of the places we went included the small village of Luss on the edge of Loch Lomond, Inverary Castle, where we had a really interesting guided tour and lunch (it’s still lived in by the current Duke of Argyll [Campbell clan] and his family), Glencoe, and the picturesque Fort William. We saw highland cows (hairy coos!), running streams, waterfalls, towering peaks moulded over aeons of time by glaciers, glens (valleys), quaint cottages and villages. And we learned that Inver means river mouth, so Inverness is the mouth of the river Ness, Inverclyde the mouth of the Clyde etc.

Just stunning in every possible way.

Luss, on Loch Lomond

Inveraray Castle

A hairy coo!