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Quinag from Stoer peninsula

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:32 +0000

Easterly view from the trig point and cairn at Sidhean Mòr, the highest point (161 m) of the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The extensive bulk of Quinag is In the distance.

Loch Cùl Fraioch and the Torridonian mountains from Sidhean Mòr

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:36 +0000

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South easterly view from Sidhean Mòr. Loch Cùl Fraioch occupies a depression in the Torridonian Sandstone low ground on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

The relict Torridonian Sandstone mountains loom over the hummocky Lewisian Gneiss 'knock and lochan' landscape in the middle distance.

Stoer cloudscape south from Sidhean Mòr

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:33 +0000

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Southerly view from the trig point and cairn at Sidhean Mòr, the highest point (161 m) of the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

On the sky line are the Torridonian Sandstone relict mountains (see notes).

Old Man of Stoer from Point of Stoer

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:26 +0000

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Looking back south eastwards to the Torridonian Sandstone cliffs and the Old Man of Stoer sea stack from the Point of Stoer.

Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

Point of Stoer cotton grass and Handa Island

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:23 +0000

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Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The shadowed cliffs of Handa Island are visible in the centre. The high ground beyond is the remote mountainous moorland south of Cape Wrath.

Point of Stoer cloudscape

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:20 +0000

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Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag is on distant sky line to the right; Ben Stack, Arkle and Foinaven in the far distance to the left of centre.

Point of Stoer cotton grass and Quinag 2

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:13 +0000

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Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag dominates the distant sky line.

Point of Stoer cotton grass

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:10 +0000

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Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

Point of Stoer cotton grass and Quinag 1

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:06 +0000

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Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag dominates the distant sky line.

Old Man of Stoer 2

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:04 +0000

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The Old Man of Stoer is a sea stack of Torridonian Sandstone on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.
The mountains of Harris in the Outer Hebrides are just visible on the sky line at the upper left.

Old Man of Stoer 1

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:01 +0000

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The Old Man of Stoer is a sea stack of Torridonian Sandstone on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

Bay of Culkein and natural sea arch

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:58 +0000

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A distant view over the Bay of Culkein towards the natural sea arch, formed in Torridonian Sandstone at Rubh' an Dùnain on the Stoer Peninsula, NW Scotland.

Butterfly orchid on the Culkein roadside

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:56 +0000

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Butterfly orchid on the roadside near Culkein on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

Clashnessie Bay and Quinag

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:53 +0000

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A rather blusterous day at Rubha Fitheacaig near Culkein on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. Looking over Clashnessie Bay towards the edge of the Lewisian Gneiss 'knock and lochan' landscape in the middle distance, and the sprawling bulk of Quinag (Torridonian Sandstone) in the far distance.

Rubha Fitheacaig: Lewisian gneiss and Scourie dyke

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:49 +0000

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At Rubha Fitheacaig near Culkein on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. Pink Lewisian gneiss in the foreground intruded by a 'Scourie Dyke', now metamorphosed to dark amphibolite, running from centre right towarss the upper left.

Raffin shore sheep tracks?

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:42 +0000

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I was unsure whether these little terraces in the grassy cliff were sheep tracks or soil-creep terraces. Raffin shore, on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

Raffin shore seaweed 5

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:37 +0000

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I was intrigued by the colours and textures of the seaweeds (mostly Bladder wrack in these images) during a walk along the deserted alternate sandy and boulder-strewn shore of Raffin, on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.

The distinctive summit of Stac Pollaidh is visible in the upper right sky line.

Raffin shore seaweed 4 - close-up of Bladder wrack

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:34 +0000

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Raffin shore seaweed 3

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:29 +0000

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Raffin shore seaweed 2 - Bladder wrack

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:50:25 +0000

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