Laggan Behind

(Please... don't give me grief for the title. These titles can be SOOOOO hard to come up with, when you visit many different places in one day.)


307-310: Laggan Dam.
311-316: The A86 road from Spean Bridge (ten miles north of Fort William) to Laggan, which is the route to either Aviemore or Perth.
317-320: Ardverikie House (www.ardverikie.com) built 1870 on the shores of Loch Laggan. Loch Laggan is a man-made loch, created as a reservoir for the British Alcan Aluminium Company for their plant in Fort William. Ardverikie Estate was the setting for the BBC drama, Monarch of the Glen.
321-323: This is the beach at the east end of the Loch near the gatelodge for the Ardverikie Estate. At this time, the beach was huge due to a relatively dry spell; however, when Scotland's weather does its famous wet spells, there is NO beach visible and the land will be flooded up to the road edge.
324-326: More scenery on the A86 to Laggan.
328-330: The railway level crossing in Kingussie, the trains run from Perth to Inverness along this line.
331: It's a lucky lad who's got a lovely lass for a chauffeur!
333-335: Ruthven Barracks. (http://tinyurl.com/ruthven) Built in 1719 by the Hanoverian troops in the hope of quelling the imminent Jacobite uprising - the barracks were eventually taken by Prince Charles Stewart in 1746 by the said Jacobite army and razed to the ground.
337-339: View of Kingussie village in the bacground, looking back from Ruthven Barracks.
341: A recurring theme - yet more farm animals roaming freely!