Let's go out of Sneck

[TheMantis 1,577]

1 hour ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

I didn't know it, but I do now.

^^^^^^

Picturing snorbens up all night with a railway atlas 😆

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

35 minutes ago, TheMantis said:

^^^^^^

Picturing snorbens up all night with a railway atlas 😆

Nah - a different type of engine       The trick is thinking of the terms to enter into your favourite search engine...

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

Nearly forgot to say, that was the Forsinard Flows Lookout Tower.   Or "viewing platform Highlands Scotland", if you're searching for it.

And just when I think I'm running out of photographs, I rediscover another of my Dad's.  This one is from 1954 or 1955.  Should be meat-and-drink for all you ferry fetishists 

Edited October 13 by snorbens_caleyman
forgot to identify previous photograph

[TheMantis 1,577]

14 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Nearly forgot to say, that was the Forsinard Flows Lookout Tower.   Or "viewing platform Highlands Scotland", if you're searching for it.

And just when I think I'm running out of photographs, I rediscover another of my Dad's.  This one is from 1954 or 1955.  Should be meat-and-drink for all you ferry fetishists 

It's here, replaced by a bridge

 

[+Robert 863]

Kylesku. Ferry then, bridge now?

[+IBM 1,337]

42 minutes ago, Robert said:

Kylesku. Ferry then, bridge now?

You are right Robert, only the mountains are the same and I'm sure Mantis will name them 

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

One of my Dad's, from 2000, I think.

[+IBM 1,337]

I know that one not such a busy fishing port now 

[TheMantis 1,577]

This place

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

Another place I've never been to, and Dad hadn't labelled it.  Took me longer to work it out than yours usually takes!

Here's the next two on the roll, which I thought would be giveaways.

[TheMantis 1,577]

Think that’s the Lord of the Isles.

[+Robert 863]

Looks like Mallaig to me. I’ve not been there for many years but spent my school years 40 miles east of there along the A830. 

Edited October 20 by Robert

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

10 minutes ago, Robert said:

Looks like Mallaig to me. I’ve not been there for many years but spent my school years 40 miles east of there along the A830. 

That is indeed Mallaig. 

I've never been there, and eventually worked it by figuring out that other pictures on the same roll of film were of Fort William, and then looking to see what places had both large CalMac ferries and a moored lifeboat.

[+IBM 1,337]

53 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

That is indeed Mallaig. 

I've never been there, and eventually worked it by figuring out that other pictures on the same roll of film were of Fort William, and then looking to see what places had both large CalMac ferries and a moored lifeboat.

It's like the rest of Scotland if the weather is good it's beautiful, a nice run from Fort William and in the summer you can time it to see the steam train or have a day trip on the train which I have not done yet!

When the fishing was at it's peak there were 40 lorry loads going out daily and the road was mainly single track then.

I once asked a policeman where was the worst place in the north he was stationed and he replied Mallaig, it was a wild place when the pubs were full of fishermen according to him.

[+IBM 1,337]

I think this one might be a bit tricky but it might not for some it's not that far away from sneck  will keep you going on Friday 

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

That looks cold!   Lovely picture, though.  Better than the wee yellow man's...

[+IBM 1,337]

It was cold at Loch Ashie that morning but here is a colder one at the same place when I was on my way back from Gorthleck one frosty morning.  When I sent the one showing the temperature outside the van to my colleagues one from Edinburgh phoned me and asked how managed to do that 

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

On 10/22/2020 at 11:18 PM, IBM said:

I think this one might be a bit tricky but it might not for some 

That was one that I didn't have to search for - just used Google Streetview to confirm my first thoughts.  I used to live up Culduthel Road, so often used to head out on the roads up to Ashie and Duntelchaig, by bike or by car.

That view hasn't changed, but I was just looking at the MacBean Memorial Park on Streetview, and hardly recognised it.  All those trees!  It was bare, open countryside when I used to go there.

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

One for the pre-history buffs here. From 2002, although since it's 4,000 years old, I doubt very much if it has changed much in the last 18!

                

[+IBM 1,337]

I know that one but will see if any one else gets it 

[+IBM 1,337]

There's no mountains big enough for Mantis and weeman hasn't been out walking there. It's Corrimony Glenurquhart. 

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

It is indeed.  Well done - they are not the best pictures, and I wondered if anyone would recognise it.

[+IBM 1,337]

Should be an easy one.

[+snorbens_caleyman 470]

Not easy, but I have worked it out.  I think you're showing us only half of it.

Will leave it for a while in case anyone else is looking at it.

Can't figure out where you took it from.  Were you on a boat?

[+IBM 1,337]

23 minutes ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

Not easy, but I have worked it out.  I think you're showing us only half of it.

Will leave it for a while in case anyone else is looking at it.

Can't figure out where you took it from.  Were you on a boat?

It's taken from the shore road and that's the east side.