Setting Sun from Arisaig - Number One. Showing An Sgurr, on Eigg, in silhouette
The rail line from Rannoch Moor to Fort William and then on to Mallaig offers a perfect entrance to the area...
The Morar Peninsular, on Scotland's west coast, faces the south of Skye and the Small Isles of Eigg, Rum, Canna and Muck. At its north west tip is the town of Mallaig to which the railway from Fort William runs. The peninsular is bisected by Loch Morar. This page differs from others in Picture Posting; rather than having the form of a story, the page is hung on five main images of the setting sun as seen from Arisaig, all taken from just south of Morar village, looking across the Sound of Sleat to the Cuillins on Skye. These shots are interjected with asides showing parts of this delightful area. The five shots that form this skeleton are not from exactly the same spot, but do show the sun falling in sequence to the horizon.
...including passing over the Glenfinnan Viaduct, here seen from a carriage window...
...and offers this angle on the Glenfinnan monument, (an apparently tiny column at the water's edge)
Setting Sun from Arisaig - Number Two. The sun outlining the Cuillins of Skye
Phone boxes went out of use due to disinterest from locals...
...who were also rather unconcerned with Skye's mountains
Looking west down Loch Morar, the village of Morar is backed by the Cuillins and
the (not so red in this April view) Red Hills of Skye
Working boats on such calm waters...
...seem to amateurs enticing
Setting Sun from Arisaig - Number Three. The sun now behind the Red Hills on Skye
Looking to the east along Loch Morar
Ferries queue at the Mallaig harbour
The old road, along south Morar, points to An Stac across Loch Ailort
But pleasure boats are also seen in numbers
A new road has been laid here at the northern tip of Loch Ailort, the view from the old road offers this splendid prospect of the Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Braes. It has been disused since 1986 and on the register of Scottish Buildings at Risk
In the clear early spring light a tree shows its complex...
...skeleton; and a rock its underwater neighbours
Setting Sun from Arisaig - Number Four. Light fast fading leaving the boats dark
Two views along Loch Morar in maybe...
...more typical light than the photograph below
Like painted ships upon painted water
Away from the road, buildings like these are still found near Loch Morar. Some may be the remains of...
...'Fermtouns' - communities that coalesced together around working the land, before 'villages' flourished
Setting Sun from Arisaig - Number Five.
A final shot as night takes over the Sound of Sleat between Arisaig and Skye Trailers...
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