10th cont'd. Largs to Aberfoyle via Loch Lomond, etc.
Largs where gulls doze, digest and
doss about. Mountains around Loch Lomond far right.
Sometimes Scotland gets it very wrong.
Great Cumbrae. Arran (oddly enough), in the background.
The "Largs Pencil" commemorates the Scots' victory here over Norse invaders in 1263.
The ferry to Great Cumbrae.
I like it a lot, but why does this image look old-fashioned?
We
remembered seeing the Cloch lighthouse right on the roadside, so we took the road
which follows the shore up to Gourock.
Rose Bay Willow Herb (herself?). In the public toilets was graffiti encouraging
hairy men to meet there between 2 and 3pm daily. And it was dated that very day.
One might think, Well, I'm not homophobic, but.......
Looking from Greenock right up to that part beyond which the topography of the Clyde
valley starts to combine with that of the
Forth to make
Scotland narrow,
the location for a canal from west coast to east and
just the place for a Roman wall.
Blocks of flats with sort of Tibetan-ish hats in Greenock.
(From memory) Ben Lomond from Loch Ard.
Loch Arklet, a reservoir, but even so, from a distance very handsome.
Ben Vorlich (Beinn Mhùrlaig) across
Loch Lomond.