The Mast

by WBlackwell on February 11, 2019

A radio/cell/internet tower that stands high above the village.  One never knows when one will get the chance or have the juice to do this again so off I went. After breakfast! Smoked kipper with black pudding

You head back towards the train station but cut left after the war memorial to get past the last finger of Loch Carron and under the train tracks

If an elf or hobbit appears on this trail, i would not be shocked. That’s Duncraig in the corner. The white things plastic tubes to protect the saplings from deer after a tree planting scheme.

And right here is when I realized that upon hitting the road I should have gone the other way.  If I wasn’t going to follow Andy’s directions why did I ask?  These are the notoriously dangerous, and possibly man-eating wild alpacas that lurk in the Scottish Highlands.  Ok, kidding, but  I didn’t want to find out what being spit upon or kicked  might be like.

The advantage of going to the mast as opposed to other peaks is that the mast has a service road!  Still a bit of a distance though

Not as clear as last time but good enough.  Wee lochans can be seen looking inland and Skye in the distance

And the Village is like a toy model from this height

A calamari snack back in the room.  And this rendering of the village reminds me of the work Paul Bloomer does in Shetland

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