Road Trip Drive With Music To Visit Loch Ailort In Lochaber Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of a road trip drive on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Loch Ailort, Scottish Gaelic: Loch Ailleart, in the Lochaber Highlands. Loch Ailort is a shallow V shaped loch, with the small Ardnish Peninsula on the North side, and the large southwest facing Moidart Peninsula to the South. Loch Ailort is bounded in the northeast by the settlement of the same name, Lochailort and in the west, opening out into the Sound of Arisaig. To the north of the loch lies Loch nan Uamh. The northern coastline is overlooked by the hill Cruach an Aonaich, that is situated at the centre of the V shape of the loch, and the ridge of An t Aonach which follows the coastline northeast to the edge of the loch, where the ridge flattens out to sea level. The southern coastline is dominated by the fine cone shaped former volcano of An Stac, which is a Corbett and overlooks Lochailort to the north. Further behind An Stac to south, and overlooking the great expanse of the sea loch, is the west facing ridge that is made up of the Sgurr na Ba Glaise in the east followed by Rois-bheinn and Cruach Doir'an Raoigh, which are also, all Corbetts. When driving in Scotland, slow down and enjoy the trip All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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