Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland photograph of the bay at Ardtoe on on the coast of Ardnamurchan, Lochaber, Scotland. It has sandy beaches with views to the island of Eigg.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Monster Midge painted boulder near Ardtoe, Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Lochaber, Scotland. The highland midge, scientific name: Culicoides impunctatus; Scots: Midgie; Scottish Gaelic: Meanbh-chuileag, is a species of small flying insect, found across the Palearctic, throughout the British Isles, Scandinavia, other regions of Europe, Russia and Northern China, in upland and lowland areas, fens, bogs and marshes. In the north west of Scotland and northern Wales it occurs from late spring to late summer. Midges tend to hate dry cloudless conditions, and are thus prevalent in humid, wet and cloudy conditions. Rain does not put them off, nor does darkness. However, they tend not to go into houses or buildings, but will enter tents. They are most active just before dawn and sunset but bite at any time of day. Midges are less active with wind speeds of over 6 mph, or humidity below 60 to 75%.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the River Shiel, a four kilometre long river in Acharacle, in the Highlands of Scotland. It flows out of the Loch Shiel into the sea at Dorlin. For fishing, the river contains salmon and sea trout, as well as native resident brown trout weighing up to 6 pounds.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the bay at Glenuig in remote West Lochaber, Scotland. Glenuig is around 30 miles west of Fort William and 20 miles from Ardnamurchan Point. In the last two hundred years, the population declined through enforced clearances of the glens for sheep and voluntary emigration from the harsher coastal regions to the new colonies, particularly Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, and America.
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Tour Scotland photograph of Loch Arkaig in Locaber in the Highlands of Scotland. Situated to the West of the Great Glen, the loch is approximately 12 miles in length and lies 140 feet above sea level, the maximum depth is some 300 feet. The outflow is through the River Arkaig at the extreme east of the loch, which flows eastwards into Loch Lochy, passing Achnacarry. Two small islands lie at the eastern end of the loch, the larger of which, Island Columbkill, or Eilean Loch Airceig, is the site of a ruined chapel dedicated to St Columba which is the former burial ground of the Camerons of Locheil. A road from the Great Glen follows the north shore of the loch to Strathan where paths lead on to Knoydart, Glenfinnan and Loch Morar. In common with a number of other Scottish lochs, Loch Arkaig was at one time supposed to be the home of a water horse.
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