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- The River Laxford at dawn.
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- Arkle from Loch Inchard, with its little brother Ben Stack on the right.
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- You’d think Cape Wrath was too bleak to farm but in fact an excellent crop of chi-chi holiday homes can successfully be raised. Arkle behind as usual, this time with its big brother Foinaven to the left.
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- The walk to Sandwood Bay isn’t particularly scenic. Its highlight is the first, very distant, view of the Cape Wrath lighthouse (arrowed).
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- Health and safety is vital in even the remotest locations…
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- Yes, I’m standing right in the middle of the dreaded Garbh Allt!
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- Brewing alcoholic celebration cocoa from the waters of the dreaded Garbh Allt.
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- Kinlochbervie. There’s a Spar shop somewhere down in that port complex, but it doesn’t make itself exactly obvious.
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- Loch a Garbh-bhaid Mor
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- The dreaded Garbh Allt is just a little further along Loch a Gharbh-bhaid Beag…
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