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Name that Loch!

Re: Name that Loch!

Postby rohan » Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:44 pm

No bites yet. I am going to be away for a few days (hopefully off grid too) so just to narrow the area down a bit and give you something to think about, this photo was taken north of Inverness. I suspect a fair number of you will have passed it on your way to a popular location but will not have seen it from this side.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Mal Grey » Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:34 pm

My original thought was Loch a Mhuillin on the Sandwood Bay path, but I got distracted and forgot.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby rohan » Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:54 pm

Sorry for the slow reply. I replied to your post om "Where's the picture" then managed, on a poor internet connection, to sign out of Walkhighlands and couldn't remember my password to get back in until now.

My original thought was Loch a Mhuillin on the Sandwood Bay path, but I got distracted and forgot.


I know the feeling. As you are so close I am going to give it to you. You were on the right path but it is Loch na Gainimh, a little before you get to Loch a Mhuillin.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Mal Grey » Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:32 pm

Cheers. It would have been my next guess!


Will dig something out shortly...
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Mal Grey » Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:37 pm

OK, try this one:


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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Skyelines » Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:19 am

Fionn Loch
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Mal Grey » Wed Nov 21, 2018 2:09 pm

Yep. Hiding Suilven in a cloud didn’t fool ya!

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Skyelines » Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:51 pm

Here's one that may be easy though you can't see much of the loch.

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby rohan » Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:36 am

Loch Kinord?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby mamoset » Fri Nov 23, 2018 2:10 pm

Loch Laggan
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Sgurr » Fri Nov 23, 2018 5:09 pm

Loch Ken?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Skyelines » Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:35 pm

mamoset wrote:Loch Laggan


That's it. :clap:
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby mamoset » Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:33 pm

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Which one's this
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Mal Grey » Sat Nov 24, 2018 12:09 pm

The lochan in Coire an Lochan whose name may or not be Lochan Coire an Lochan as its not actually labelled on my map. Anyway, between Sgur Eilde Mor and Beag.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby mamoset » Sat Nov 24, 2018 2:50 pm

ye that's the place, ah yes it's wrote in black and not blue, as depicting water would be. :roll:
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