highlands daytrip..Pt 1 of 4

we had a great day out up to the highlands last saturday...375 mile round trip in perfect calm sunny weather with broken cloud...snow cover had mostly gone at ground level with just the peaks white...on with the pics...
bannockburn on the outskirts of stirling...every scot knows of this famous battle...

statue to the man himself...


the statue is lifesize...look at the size of the axe and claymore sword!...


moving words indeed...

with patriotism now pumping through the viens it was up along the scenic shoreline of loch lubnaig...


from strathyre to lochearnhead...the petrol pumps are gone here now but the old garage is still there...

looks better in B&W...

the disued railway line up glen ogle with its viaduct...the line is now a cycle path to killin and loch tay...

down at killin the falls of dochart were on full song with the recent thaw...












stones trapped in cracks spin with the water creating holes in the rocks over many years...


heading north from tyndrum for bridge of orchy under the impressive 3530ft peak of beinn heasgarnich...

the view west over loch tulla...


and south with ben lui (3106ft) in the distance...

over rannoch moor...

and your definitly in the highlands now...

glencoe next...