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Name that Loch!

Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Skyelines » Fri Apr 24, 2020 12:08 am

mash tun wrote:Loch na Muilne and Loch an Àth Ruaidh ?


Not those..
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Skyelines » Wed Apr 29, 2020 12:33 pm

Skyelines wrote:Here's two lochs and you need to take a ferry (unless you live there).

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It's been a week now and not many guesses, so time for a clue. As is my habit a cryptic one:

Take a punish potter round one loch and then have machinations about a monstrous gun on the other.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:16 am

Ist Loch Barabhas on the Isle of Lewis? :?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Skyelines » Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:31 am

Caberfeidh wrote:Ist Loch Barabhas on the Isle of Lewis? :?


No, try another ferry..
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby vuirich » Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:49 am

Loch of Harray (Potter) and Loch of Stenness (Sten being a machine gun) on Mainland, Orkney?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Skyelines » Thu Apr 30, 2020 11:50 am

vuirich wrote:Loch of Harray (Potter) and Loch of Stenness (Sten being a machine gun) on Mainland, Orkney?


Yes, well worked out. :clap:

The picture was taken from the Ring of Brodgar.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby vuirich » Thu Apr 30, 2020 3:01 pm

Cheers. I was up there a couple of years ago. Quite a place for archaeology.

Which loch is this (not the one in the foreground)?

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby vuirich » Sat May 02, 2020 12:29 pm

Clue: North of the Great Glen.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby mash tun » Sun May 03, 2020 12:21 am

Reminds me of Lochan Fèith Mhic'-illean but suspect it isn't
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby vuirich » Sun May 03, 2020 9:20 am

mash tun wrote:Reminds me of Lochan Fèith Mhic'-illean

That's because it is. :D Taken on the approach from the east.

Over to you, mash tun.
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby mash tun » Sun May 03, 2020 10:49 pm

Thanks vuirich. I guess I don't have much of an excuse as I walked past it only last September :roll:

Name of this loch ?

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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Mon May 04, 2020 9:11 am

mash tun wrote: Name of this loch ?

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Loch Linnhe, from the side across from the A82?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby mash tun » Mon May 04, 2020 9:19 am

Caberfeidh wrote:
mash tun wrote: Name of this loch ?

Loch F.JPG


Loch Linnhe, from the side across from the A82?

Nope - not there
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Mal Grey » Fri May 29, 2020 11:33 am

Loch Etive?
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Re: Name that Loch!

Postby Caberfeidh » Fri May 29, 2020 12:00 pm

Loch Awe?
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