Beautiful Glen Affric Mountains Scotland 31 3 2019
Sunday 31.3.2019 - shorter night as British Summer Time began. I woke up at midnight prepared for the trip to Glen Affric which is 4 hours of driving from home. Tom a'Choinich & Toll Creagach were the target - two different Munros with great views around.
Glen Strathfarrar
Glen Strathfarrar (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Farair) can be found in the Highland region of Scotland, near Loch Ness.
Glen Strathfarrar takes its name from the River Farrar, which runs through it and is designated as a national scenic area due to its “exceptional scenery”.
The Glen is part of the Affric-Beauly hydro-electric power scheme, with dams at Loch Monar and Loch Beannacharan, the Monar dam and is the largest arch dam in Great Britain.
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Driving To Glen Strathfarrar - The West Scotland Adventure - Stage 05
* Tarmac Tourism // Asphalt Adventures // Road Reviews * Stage 5 would see us driving from Roybridge to Glen Strathfarrar along the A82 and A831, a distance of 71 miles.
Glen Strathfarrar (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Farair) can be found in the Highland region of Scotland, near Loch Ness. The Glen takes its name from the River Farrar, which runs through it and is designated as a national scenic area due to its “exceptional scenery”. The Glen is part of the Affric-Beauly hydro-electric power scheme, with dams at Loch Monar and Loch Beannacharan, the Monar dam and is the largest arch dam in Great Britain.
Inverness Property Drone - Carnoch Farm, Strathglass, Beauly
What went down in Crochail Wood today? Late winter 2012
Highlights of video footage of wildlife in the Scottish Highlands. Filmed in Crochial Wood, Strathglass, near Cannich in Inverness-shire, Scotland (near Glen Affric) -where Wild Rose Escapes is based. Includes day and night footage of red, roe and sika deer, fox and badgers.
Loch Farr, Inverness - Scotland
Uncut footage but played at 4 times normal speed!
A rather boring flight in all honesty, tried to make the most of the snowy scenery but ended up just flying around quite aimlessly!
Location: Loch Farr, Inverness, Scotland
Date: 13 Jan 2015
RPAS: DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus (V3)
Audio: Richard Durand & Neev Kennedy - Running On Empty (Zetandel Cool Down Mix)
Video editing and processing: VirtualDub for lens correction, Sony Vegas for editing.
WARNING!
Do YOU fly or want to fly a remote controlled aircraft in the UK?
To avoid injuring or killing people first and foremost, but also therefore becoming the person who causes a huge shake up in who can and cannot legally operate Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, (RPAS) make sure you know UK CAA airspace regulations with regard to RC aircraft under 20Kg.
Here's a basic summary of the ones to keep in mind:
• The maximum permitted altitude is 400 feet (120 metres) above ground level
• The maximum distance RPAS can be flown from the operator is 500 metres
• The minimum visibility needs to be 5 km
• RPAS must be flown in line of sight of the operator
• An RPAS cannot be flown at night without special permission from the CAA
• Permission must be obtained from the owner of the take-off point
• An RPAS cannot be flown within 50 metres of structures, vehicles or people that are not under the control of the person in charge of the aircraft
• An RPAS cannot be flown over or within 150 metres of any built up area
Further Reading:
Basic Principles of Unmanned Aircraft
UK Air Navigation Order
Article 166: Small Unmanned Aircraft (20kg or less)
Article 167: Small Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft (if it has a camera)
For a quick video on these regulations and how to ensure you don't get yourself prosecuted...
Cannich3
My relatives in Cannich.
Dingwall, Scotland
Dingwall from the air. 2nd flight with DJI Phantom 3 Standard. Got a bit windier than I was expecting but the drone handled it no bother.
St. Mary's Catholic Church Eskadale, Scotland
Few places can match the uniqueness of rural Highland churches -oases of tranquillity where man's spiritual need is complemented by the beauty of nature. For a visit that is both aesthetically and spiritually rewarding take the low road to Struy - a narrow winding road that seems to lead into a time-lock where the clear, sweeping river Beauly flows ribbon-like between banks of birches and plantations of firs. Beautiful Strathglass, incomparable in its ever-changing vistas and gentle melancholy. Suddenly, on top of a hillock, a building appears, dazzling in its white-washed harling, set with many-faceted windows: St Mary's of Eskadale, 'built on a scale of grandeur hitherto unknown in the Highlands.'
That the chapel was considered grand for its time betrays its denomination. All around, gravestones of its erstwhile priests, parishioners and benefactors tell of the faith of the dead. For St Mary's stands in one of the few districts in the Highlands where the inhabitants adhered to their Catholic faith, long after their Chief, The Chisholm, changed his allegiance. It is hard to believe that so large a Roman Catholic chapel was built as far back as 1827, only 34 years after the passing of the Catholic Relief Act which gave freedom of worship to Roman Catholics. Built by another Chief of the area, the 12th Lord Lovat, St Mary's is quite different from the few Catholic churches in existence at that time throughout the Highlands - usually barn-like structures, with no windows and a mud floor. No barn this, its windows filling the nave with a light that must have been a revelation to the tenants of the nineteenth century, the traceried rose window being added in the east gable in 1881: a constant source of wonder for the congregation of Eskadale who, at the turn of the century, numbered over 800.
Wikipedia - Glen Affric.
Glen Affric Scottish Gaelic Gleann Afraig is a glen south west of the village of Cannich in the Highland region of Scotland some miles km to the west of Loch Ness The River Affric runs along its le...
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