Point of Stoer cotton grass and Handa Island

Raffin and Stoer

Folder: Scotland
Photos taken in and around the Stoer peninsula in north west Scotland.
Point of Stoer cotton grass and Handa Island

Point of Stoer cotton grass and Handa Island

20 Jun 2018 116
Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The shadowed cliffs of Handa Island are visible in the centre. The high ground beyond is the remote mountainous moorland south of Cape Wrath.
Point of Stoer cloudscape

Point of Stoer cloudscape

20 Jun 2018 115
Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag is on distant sky line to the right; Ben Stack, Arkle and Foinaven in the far distance to the left of centre.
View NNE from Point of Stoer 1

View NNE from Point of Stoer 1

20 Jun 2018 99
Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag is on distant sky line to the right; Ben Stack, Arkle and Foinaven in the far distance to the left of centre.
Point of Stoer cotton grass and Quinag 2

Point of Stoer cotton grass and Quinag 2

20 Jun 2018 113
Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag dominates the distant sky line.
Point of Stoer cotton grass

Point of Stoer cotton grass

20 Jun 2018 81
Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.
Point of Stoer cotton grass and Quinag 1

Point of Stoer cotton grass and Quinag 1

20 Jun 2018 110
Spectacular carpets of cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) at the Point of Stoer on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The sprawling bulk of Quinag dominates the distant sky line.
Old Man of Stoer 2

Old Man of Stoer 2

20 Jun 2018 93
The Old Man of Stoer is a sea stack of Torridonian Sandstone on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The mountains of Harris in the Outer Hebrides are just visible on the sky line at the upper left.
Old Man of Stoer 1

Old Man of Stoer 1

20 Jun 2018 87
The Old Man of Stoer is a sea stack of Torridonian Sandstone on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.
Bay of Culkein and natural sea arch

Bay of Culkein and natural sea arch

19 Jun 2018 106
A distant view over the Bay of Culkein towards the natural sea arch, formed in Torridonian Sandstone at Rubh' an Dùnain on the Stoer Peninsula, NW Scotland.
Butterfly orchid on the Culkein roadside

Butterfly orchid on the Culkein roadside

19 Jun 2018 108
Butterfly orchid on the roadside near Culkein on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.
Clashnessie Bay and Quinag

Clashnessie Bay and Quinag

18 Jun 2018 112
A rather blusterous day at Rubha Fitheacaig near Culkein on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. Looking over Clashnessie Bay towards the edge of the Lewisian Gneiss 'knock and lochan' landscape in the middle distance, and the sprawling bulk of Quinag (Torridonian Sandstone) in the far distance.
Rubha Fitheacaig: Lewisian gneiss and Scourie dyke

Rubha Fitheacaig: Lewisian gneiss and Scourie dyke

18 Jun 2018 89
At Rubha Fitheacaig near Culkein on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. Pink Lewisian gneiss in the foreground intruded by a 'Scourie Dyke', now metamorphosed to dark amphibolite, running from centre right towarss the upper left.
Torridonian mountains from Raffin shore

Torridonian mountains from Raffin shore

17 Jun 2018 110
The dark sillhouettes of the Torridonian Sandstone mountains seen in the distance across Balchladich Bay from the Raffin shore, NW Scotland. Left to right: the twin summits of Meall Dearg and Cùl Beag, Stac Pollaidh just touched by the cloud, then the Coigach range.
Raffin shore sheep tracks?

Raffin shore sheep tracks?

17 Jun 2018 98
I was unsure whether these little terraces in the grassy cliff were sheep tracks or soil-creep terraces. Raffin shore, on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.
Raffin shore seaweed 5

Raffin shore seaweed 5

17 Jun 2018 108
I was intrigued by the colours and textures of the seaweeds (mostly Bladder wrack in these images) during a walk along the deserted alternate sandy and boulder-strewn shore of Raffin, on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland. The distinctive summit of Stac Pollaidh is visible in the upper right sky line.
Raffin shore seaweed 4 - close-up of Bladder wrack

Raffin shore seaweed 4 - close-up of Bladder wrack

17 Jun 2018 104
I was intrigued by the colours and textures of the seaweeds (mostly Bladder wrack in these images) during a walk along the deserted alternate sandy and boulder-strewn shore of Raffin, on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.
Raffin shore seaweed 3

Raffin shore seaweed 3

17 Jun 2018 104
I was intrigued by the colours and textures of the seaweeds (mostly Bladder wrack in these images) during a walk along the deserted alternate sandy and boulder-strewn shore of Raffin, on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.
Raffin shore seaweed 2 - Bladder wrack

Raffin shore seaweed 2 - Bladder wrack

17 Jun 2018 111
I was intrigued by the colours and textures of the seaweeds (mostly Bladder wrack in these images) during a walk along the deserted alternate sandy and boulder-strewn shore of Raffin, on the Stoer peninsula, NW Scotland.
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