Loch Ossian

I thought I would share some of my pictures with everyone, with a hope to please and inspire you. The spring has sprung and my wondering shoes are restless after a long and gloomy wiggie winter. Not being a car owner, I have decided to explore places along the West Highland railway line. The result was fatal. I mean fatal attraction. If you are looking for somewhere to switch off, somewhere to wash your spirit clean, that keep on reading. If that is not your cup of tea, keep on reading too, you never know!
It is as easy as this:
Wake up before the sunrise and catch sleeper from Glasgow heading north. Preferably without oversleeping and nearly missing it. Get some sleep on a train and after a couple of hours get off at Corrour Station in the middle of nowhere; for movie buffs, it’s the one that featured in the Trainspotting.



Within the radius of perhaps ten miles there is NOTHING. BIG NOTHING. Nothing so beautifully desolate. Nothing so desolately beautiful. Having grown up in the landscape of deciduous woodlands, moorland still takes me by surprise, especially if there’s so much of it. Rolling hills and heather and grass and peat. And deer. Lots.

Being on a low budget I steered away from the B&B at the station and galloped towards Loch Ossian, with tiny islands covered in trees and a rustic eco-friendly youth hostel on its shores.


It boasts with grey-water recycling scheme and environmentally friendly composting toilet system!

Saturday started perfectly calm and hazy…



…and it was spent high up on the hills…





… with some excellent botanising – purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia).




On Sunday, tired legs were rebelling against another long trek, so in the end they got away with a walk around the loch and some more snapping for the ecology picture library.
And in the evening back home to our Dear Green Place, with batteries fully charged for the coming week:).

Altogether a great weekend in a stunning place, strongly recommended! (Preferably early in the season, as in summer midges apparently are a total nightmare!)