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Scotland: The Highlands

Inverness

My only Bed and Breakfast offered quiet humble room with breakfast sweetened with hospitality.
Town of Inverness gateway to the Highlands, day tours below. River Ness lovely centerpiece for a walk alongside.
The Isle of Skye: became tourist attraction after Queen Elizabeth purchased nearby Balmoral castle.
The Isle of Skye: peak season, one needs a dinner reservation and campers, backpackers camp anywhere and everywhere.
The Isle of Skye: well worth the visit the area abounds with hidden waterfalls, bounding rivers and rocky terrain.
Isle of Skye: Exemplifies The glorious magnificent Highlands of Scotland
Balnuaran of Clara a sacred landscape, a prehistoric site that interred important member of community, 4000 years ago.
Witness the last civil war between the Jacobites aka the Highlanders vs British government who fought on Scottish soil in 1746 at Culloden, fought about clans and religion on this sacred field. Highlanders were evicted, replaced with sheep.?They repressed Highland culture: banned the kilt, banished bagpipe, and carrying weapons.
A modern interactive exhibit of the close range battle and mass graves of Culloden. Ferocious hand to hand fighting, the Jacobites faint with hunger and lack of sleep, 700 dead in seconds by British cavalry of cannon fire, mortar bombs, musket with bayonet, swords. Excavation of metal objects unfolded details of battle.
After the 1846 Culloden battle, the Highlander people were banished and replaced with non native white sheep that currently dominates the landscapes. Smaller and heartier black sheep are native to the Highlands and are found in only small herds today.
Glen Afric is a nature preserve where Scottish pine has been replanted on the banks of a winding river.. Highlands privately owned by 500 billionaire men of non native Scottish heritage who use land for hunting lodges.
Pippa Middleton married the blue blood Matthew family who owns the private hunting lodge in Glen Afric posted no trespassing signs goes against Scotlands motto, FREE TO ROAM.

Loch Ness & Fort Augustine

James from Rabbies tours drove around Loch Ness, spotted a 10 point stag, stopped at waterfall and beach where a gentleman named Steve lives 33 years looking for the Loch Ness monster!

Loch Ness While Loch Ness is best known for the Loch Ness monster, Loch Ness connects the North Sea to the Atlantic thru lockes. The town of Inverness opens to the North sea, going down the Loch Ness to Fort Augustus through locks to the Atlantic ocean, which bypasses the more northern waters.

Fort Augustus connects the North Sea to the Atlantic using a series of locks to accommodate working barges, Scottish naval ships and sailboats.
Boat ride on Loch Ness.
Video of bag pipe player on the Highland tour

Glasgow, Scotland

Early on, the heart of Glasgow was ship building as reflected in architecture: bow, keel, sails of sailing ships.

Glasgow Perspective from hop on bus, only 2 days in Glasgow, Central Train Station and University

First rain after 9 days in Scotland. On last Rabbies tour in Scotland to Glencoe and Loch Lomand and Trossachs National Park.
Frying up Scallops from the sea to frying pan in resort town of Oban.

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