Saddell Castle (1)
I will have explained this before, but I have the better part of 12 thousand photos on Flickr these days, so you may not have read the explanation!  I live in Australia.  I lived in Scotland before I moved to Australia (many years ago), which is where my love of Scottish castles and tower-houses in particular stems from, together with the history associated with them.  

I 'release' these photos (on an unsuspecting public!) at the rate of one per day.  As I only visit the UK once a year at best, I need to take at least 365 usable photos while I am there, to last me until the next visit - and I need at least another 365 up my proverbial sleeve, in case of Covid lock-downs, or the occasional years that I don't visit - such as this year (I'm building a new house!)

This explains why these photos of Saddell Castle, which won't be released until late May 2024, were taken nearly two years previously, back in August 2022.  And the fact that I am not planning to visit Scotland again until 2025, is the reason that I am not holding back on loading lots of photos of each castle, because I don't want to run out before 2025.  That would never do!  And if I stopped, I might never get started again!

Because I have been on the road for the last 14 days, and today is the 71st castle visited in that 2 weeks, I am having a bit of a rest day.  I arrived at the very nice campsite at Carradale yesterday evening after Dunaverty, on the east coast of Kintyre, and it is so nice today, that after catching up on laundry etc, I have just gone back south 3 miles to see this particularly fine tower-house, and that will be all for the day!
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