King Fergus' Isle (1)
When I left Caithness I wrote that my intention was to do something I have wanted to do for a while, which was to drive the great diagonal line from the north-east corner of Caithness to the Mull of Kintyre.  I wasn't going to stay exactly to that line, because I wanted to leave the Great Glen fault-line at Inverness and go to Aviemore and then cross the watershed from Speyside to Glen Spean, before rejoining the Great Glen at Spean Bridge.  The reason for deviating off the straight line was partly to visit Loch Moy, but mostly to come here.

This is Loch Laggan, in the upper reaches of Glen Spean, the valley that connects Kingussie and Newtonmore in upper Speyside, with Spean Bridge and ultimately Fort William in the Great Glen.  It is a wild and wonderful stretch of countryside, particularly with an approaching storm - a place of dark forests, big mountains and a lot of water!  Apart from the road following the shore of the loch to the right, not much has changed here for centuries, if not millennia!
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