A blue sky with light white cloud in thin strands. A strip of blue green land on the horizon. Bright blue sea, a mid point strip. Dark golden sand flanked by grassy dunes and centre the rails of a wooden boardwalk.

Good morning. Cloudy. Windless. 8 degrees in the Highlands.

Sharing a sunny day trip west to Gairloch for #photooftheday A cracker of a day in May 21.

Have a good one yourselves.

#scotland
#photography
#scottishhighlands
#beach
#gairloch

Old Photograph Single Track Road Flowerdale Scotland Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of a fishing boat by the single track road to Flowerdale, #Gairloch. These lands have been in the hands of the Clan Mackenzie for hundreds of years tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/10/old-...

Heating grant scheme goes live and Easter Storm Read to the end for an update from the Ullapool Seafood Shack

The latest Wester Ross Round-up is out now...

*Heating oil grant scheme goes live
* Batten down all the things for Easter
* Final poll on humpback name shortlist
* More jobs and events

Read and subscribe: gairlochtimes.org.uk/heating-gran...

#Westerross #Gairloch #Kinlochewe #Ullapool #Torridon

Happy ducks and heating oil support Read to the end to learn the difference between the Equilux and the Equinox.

In this week's smorgasbord of Wester Ross news:

* Happy ducks at #Gairloch harbour
* Police warn local heating oil users to lock up your tanks
* Even more local Easter events
* A rare opportunity to buy an affordable family home in Gairloch

gairlochtimes.org.uk/happy-ducks-...

The MacLennan family outside their home - 10 Stirkhill, on the west side of Loch Ewe, c1940. 
L-R: Jessie MacLennan, John MacLennan, and Keneth MacLennan

[photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

On this day in 1959, the laying of a new Transatlantic cable was announced, linking #Gairloch with Corner Brook, Newfoundland, primarily to improve air trafic control over the North Atlantic. 

[photo from the collections at Gairloch Museum]

The approach to Kerrysdale Bridge during the floods in February 1998. It was the worst flooding in the #Gairloch area in living memory. More than six inches fell over a 36 hour period; the equivalent of a month's average rainfall

[photo from the collections at Gairloch Museum]

A group of people outside the old Post Office in Gairloch, circa early 1950s. Names and occupations here: https://www.ambaile.org.uk/asset/7892/

[photo: Ian Bain; from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

A bus bound for #Gairloch pictured near Loch Maree in 1966

[photo: John Sinclair]

A winter sunset on Loch Maree, near Gairloch in beautiful Wester Ross, NW Highlands of Scotland
#scotland #highlands #gairloch #lochs #landscapes #sunsets #photography

#Torridon House, near the north shore of Upper Loch Torridon, with Beinn Alligin behind

[photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

Looking up the River Ewe at Poolewe, near Gairloch in beautiful Wester Ross, NW Highlands of Scotland
#poolewe #gairloch #scotland #highlands #rivers #landcape #photography #black&white

The Mackenzie family from #Melvaig

Back: Mary & Margaret Mackenzie (sisters) and another Mary Mackenzie

Front: John Mackenzie (brother to Mary & Margaret), Margaret MacKenzie (mother of John, Mary & Margaret) and Isabel Urquhart (née Mackenzie)

[photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

On the single track road between Badachro and Sheildaig, south of Gairloch, in beautiful Wester Ross, NW Highlands of Scotland
#gairloch #scotland #highlands #landscapes #photography #mountains

John Mackenzie, 'An Peigi', working with a scythe (and accompanied by a dog!) at South Erradale, c1940s. His thatched house is in the background

[photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

#A832 #Gairloch road clear now

⚠️ CAUTION #A832 #Gairloch - heavy diesel spill on road at shops⚠️
Operatives on way to clear.
Extreme caution advised

Murdo Mackenzie, 'Mord Long', (left), and Kenneth Mackenzie, 'Crùbaidh', both from Port Henderson, outside the garages of Loch Maree Hotel, undated

[photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

Intently watching the sheep dog trials at Gairloch in beautiful Wester Ross, NW Highlands of Scotland
#scotland #highlands #dogs #collies #sheepdogs #pets #photography #gairloch

Gairloch On Visit To The North West Highlands Of Scotland

Tour #Scotland short aerial travel video Blog, with #Scottish music, of #Gairloch on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to #Wester #Ross in the North West #Highlands. #Gaelic: Geàrrloch, meaning Short Loch tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2021/05/gair...

Hebridean princess leaving #Gairloch yesterday. #scotland
#highlands

Willie "Doss" Mackenzie standing beside the Lochbroom Stores delivery van, circa mid/late-1950s

[photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

Towards the Torridon Mountains from beach at Big Sand near #gairloch #WesterRoss #scotland #highlands.

Rua Reidh Lighthouse at Melvaig, Gairloch on the wild northwest coast of beautiful Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands. Now a welcoming guest house where you can go and stay
#lighthouse #gairloch #scotland #highlands #sea #coastal #landscapes #photography #weather #northwest

looking along the coastline of the Gair Loch in northwest Scotland, rocky shore and heather to the right, blue sea to the left. Island of Skye on the horizon

Wester Ross coastline, Skye on the horizon. #gairloch #coastline #westerross #scotland #highlandsofscotland #skye #trotternish

pink and orange colour in the sky just before sunrise, low hills in the foreground

mountains with pink lightening sky above

Good morning from Gairloch, northwest Scotland #sunrise #gairloch #westerross #scotland #torridon

Beach photo. Blue sky with high white cloud. A gorse covered hill sandy bay below with turquoise water and some rocks visible. Grassy dunes in the foreground. White single storey houses tucked beneath the hill.

Good morning, Bluesky. It’s supposed to be staying grey here today so will need to make my own sunshine. Her’s a start with the lovely Gairloch Beach.

Have a good one.

#Scotland
#beach
#Gairloch

Scotsman Walking Wearing Kilt On Beach On History Visit To Gairloch North West Highlands Scotland

Tour #Scotland short 4K travel video Blog clip of a #Scotsman wearing a Kilt and Sporran and walking on a beach on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to #Gairloch in the North West #Highlands #Gaelic: Geàrrloch, meaning Short Loch tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2025/08/scot...

A Croft House ruin at Inverasdale, north of Poolewe on the shores of Loch Ewe, in beautiful Wester Ross, NW Highlands of Scotland
#highlands #scotland #westerross #northwest #landscapes #photography #black&white #monochrome #gairloch

A lone Croft House on the road to Red Point, south of Gairloch with the mountains of Torridon distant, in beautiful Wester Ross, NW Highlands of Scotland
#scotland #highlands #torridon #mountains #landscapes #photography #crofting #remote #northwest #gairloch