Loch Torridon: the light show starts - Daniel and Clare's photos (9th December 2012) |
We woke to the gales forecast. Squalls ran up the loch, bearing down on the water in visceral swirls, and tearing up curtains of spray from its surface. But inbetween, something amazing was happening...
The cottage gave us a grandstand view of all this. We did eventually venture out, after lunch, for a bracing walk back to the Mains again. Easy going with the wind behind us, still flattening the waves on the loch. Thankfully they eased for our return... What a day - lousy weather can turn up the most beautiful things occasionally. We've only once (in many years of having our heads in the clouds?) seen more spectacular mother-of-pearl skies than this. Some of you might remember the all-encompassing display in February 1996. But the colours weren't as good as today's... And to see it with a foreground of the pines of Torridon and Beinn Damh...
Squalls came and went - fast-moving and highly visible. We could have stayed in the environs of the cottage all day. Two days later, in totally different conditions, we did... But before that, our first foray into the glens.
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(Text and photos by Daniel and Clare Gordon. March 2013).
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