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Name that Loch!

Re: Name that Loch!

Postby rockhopper » Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:23 pm

hint - referenced in a report from the last few months :wink:
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Guinessman » Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:16 pm

Last walk report if I'm not mistaken!
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby rockhopper » Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:37 pm

Guinessman wrote:Last walk report if I'm not mistaken!

You might very well think that; I could not possibly comment :wink:

And the name of the lochan is............?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Guinessman » Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:15 pm

Will take a stab at Lochan na Cruadhach??
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby rockhopper » Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:30 pm

Guinessman wrote:Will take a stab at Lochan na Cruadhach??

Correct - over to you - cheers :)
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Guinessman » Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:10 pm

Ok, been unable to post photos for a while due to internet crashing so here goes, which Loch is the sun setting on?

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:00 am

Could it be Loch Bracadale on Skye with the hills of Rum in the distance?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:01 am

Or even Loch Saforth in the Western Isles with the hills of Skye in the distance?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Guinessman » Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:39 am

Neither Cab,though your thoughts on the view on the second answer are correct
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby jmarkb » Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:48 am

Guinessman wrote:your thoughts on the view on the second answer are correct


Are you sure that's the right way round? :wink:
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Guinessman » Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:52 am

Yes your right,it's Rum
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:35 pm

Now that's just maddeningly unhelpful. If it's Rum in the distance, that might just be Loch Ailort in the foreground. Ah to be in Moidart with the sun setting, the mist coming in and the curlew calling in the gloaming...
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Thu Jun 14, 2018 12:36 pm

Or maybe it's Loch Hourn...
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Guinessman » Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:32 pm

Not Lochs Ailort or Hourn but somewhere between
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby rockhopper » Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:25 pm

Were you staying overnight at Oban bothy ?
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