Rannoch Moor
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August 6
As you go from Glencoe to Rannoch Moor, you pass the Altnafeadh and can see King’s House hotel in the distance. Usually people photograph the Buachaille Etive Mor on the right but the clouds and sunlight caught my eye
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August 2
We had a few hours free so we took a walk up Buachaille Etive Beag. It was nice to see so many wild flowers. Here you can see Bog Asphodel and a couple of Spotted Orchids in the foreground but we also saw Harebell, Milkwort, Eyebright, Tormentil and Wild Thyme.
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July 8
Just on the road between Glencoe and Altnafeadh (the house below Buachaille Etive Mor) you can pull off the road and take a walk in the moor and find networks of small streams. Here one of these streams act as a leading line to Glen Coe itself.
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July 3
Just past the switchback above Glencoe, the river coe cuts alongside the road as a Mountain Ash leans out over the blushing granite.
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June 30
Just past midsummer, the bog cotton sprinkles Rannoch Moor with drops of white and the grasses start to drift toward warmer colours. In the background, Beinn a’Chrulaiste captures the occasional sun during a break in a typical, turbulent Highland summer.
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June 24
The remains of part of the Caledonian forest are revealing where a burn cuts through the peat. The trees are potentially 4,000 years old, a victim of the climate becoming wetter and the environment changing to become dominated by bog and probably finished off by the arrival of small communities using the trees for building…
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