Old Travel Blog Photograph Salmon Leap Linn Of Dee River Dee Near Braemar Aberdeenshire Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Salmon Leap at Linn Of Dee on the River Dee near Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. At Linn of Dee the river passes east through a 300 metre natural rock gorge. The River Dee rises at approximately 4,000 feet in elevation on the plateau of Braeriach in the Cairngorm Mountains, the highest source of any major river in the British Isles. Emerging in a number of pools called the Wells of Dee the young Dee then flows across the plateau to the cliff edge from where the Falls of Dee plunge into An Garbh Choire. The river is then joined by a tributary coming from the Pools of Dee in the Lairig Ghru and then flows south down the Lairig Ghru between Ben Macdui and Cairn Toul, tumbling over falls in the Chest of Dee on its way to White Bridge and the confluence with the Geldie Burn. At Linn of Dee the river passes east through a 300 metre natural rock gorge. Between there and Braemar, Lui Water, formed by Luibeg and Derry burns, and Quoich Water join the growing River Dee. The River Clunie enters the Dee at Braemar. The Dee is a popular salmon fishing river, having a succession of varied pools, intersected by sharp rapids.



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