Scottish Highlands

[nickthetasmaniac]

I'm in Scotland on a uni exchange at the moment, and last weekend finally managed to get up to the highlands. These are all taken around Loch Muick and Lochnagar in the Southern Cairngorms.

All with an Oly E-3 and ZD 12-60 SWD

[tasadam]

Must be viewed with the background music "Mull of Kintyre".
Great stuff, thanks for sharing! A really interesting perspective. Ya lucky so & so...

[ILUVSWTAS]

Awesome stuff thanks for sharing Nick! Great to see another part of the world in the Gallery!!

you can see why the Scots were attracted to Tassies Highlands!!

[MJD]

Like the pictures. The countryside is a lot more open than here (Tasmania). Nice to see someone with the same camera setup - also got a 70-300 recently.

[nickthetasmaniac]

Like the pictures. The countryside is a lot more open than here (Tasmania). Nice to see someone with the same camera setup - also got a 70-300 recently.

The 70-300 is an outstanding lens, especially for the money! I have the 50-200 SWD myself, which is great for surfing and so on...

you can see why the Scots were attracted to Tassies Highlands!!

It was a bit surreal to tell the truth. Bits, like the track mud oddly enough, where strikingly similar (in this case because of the peat). But at the same time the Scottish Highlands make you realise how wild and isolated parts of Tasmania are; these shots were taken within 10km of one of the Queen's holiday homes I was telling some local walkers about places like the South-West Track and they were blown away that you could be days from anywhere in a place as small as Tassie

[photohiker]

Great shots.



That looks like the Glas Allt near Glas-Allt-Shiel?

Trudged that way in May myself. Must put a link to the Gallery up! The area around Lochnagar looks daunting enough without the snow, but this looks positively scary. (Is this near the Stuik?)

[photohiker]

And this one:

Looks to be taken not far from here:

[tasadam]

Trudged that way in May myself.

Wondered how long it would be before you discovered this topic

[HitchHiking]

Great! Another place to add to my goto list.

Wicked pictures eh

[photohiker]

Trudged that way in May myself.

Wondered how long it would be before you discovered this topic

haha

Bit under 3 hours apparently

[nickthetasmaniac]

Great shots.



That looks like the Glas Allt near Glas-Allt-Shiel?

Yep

Must put a link to the Gallery up! The area around Lochnagar looks daunting enough without the snow, but this looks positively scary. (Is this near the Stuik?)



Honestly not sure if it is... This was not too far from the summit of Lochnagar...

Pretty sure your photo of the creek is from almost exactly the same place! Near a little bridge where the track branches off for the Lochnagar circuit?

[photohiker]

Pretty sure your photo of the creek is from almost exactly the same place! Near a little bridge where the track branches off for the Lochnagar circuit?

Yep. I reckon I stopped to have a snack and lose some tourists who were looking at me strangely (could have been the smell haha)

If its real close to Lochnagar, then it wouldn't be the Stuik - its about 3km or so away (west) from Cac Carn Beag (the actual summit) More likely its a view of the Lochnager corrie.

Great walking country!

[north-north-west]

That shot with the walker near the cliff, in the fog, is just brilliant.

*sigh*
So many places to go, so little money . . .

[Nick S]

Thanks for posting mate. so where are all the trees?
And sorry I must say I wondered how william wallace would have fared running over those mountains with a kilt

[Mickeymoo]

Cool photos, especially love the second one. Looks like great walking over there!

[DanH]

really nice phots ... thanks for posting