The Western Highlands

Ok it has been a busy two days but we have seen lots of beautiful sights. The weather is holding up real nice for the moment so we went to a gorge firmed by glaciers and full of waterfalls over slabs of rock.

It is called in gaelic, but Measrach falls for us. There was much mention of the gaelic name for things. In any case a bridge builder that was the first to use cables on suspension bridges instead of chains, John Fowler, put a bridge acoss the gorge.
The Scottish are very industrious and were big bridge builders.
Some of the waterfalls.

We then took a road curcuit from Garve to Gairlich to Urlacht and Loch Ness. I was a long stretch for a day.


There were highlands that looked like big mountains but none of them were over 1500 meters high. The cemetaries are very interesting if you read the tombstones. 
Tired we moved on to Urquart a ruined cadtle on the Loch Ness. It has lots of history and St. Columba was there in the 6th century. The lake is well known for the monster Nessie. It is said that the amount of fresh water in the lake is more than all the lakes of England and Scotland. It is a very deep fault and the Great Glen Way a hiking trail follows its shores.


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