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This sunset, taken in July 1995, has at long last been added to my website 15 years after it was taken. After all this time my memory is a little vague about the circumstances leading up to this shot. However I do remember I was at the Crasg viewpoint in Gairloch, and that I was being savaged by midges.
Being savaged by midgies is the usual lot of the landscape photographer shooting sunsets, or sunrises, during the summer months in Scotland's North-west Highlands. Being savaged is particularly upsetting if the sunset you have suffered for does not materialise, but the irritations are soon forgotten when a sunset such as the above starts to develop.
This view from the Crasg is looking over Loch Gairloch to the Lonemore peninsula and Longa Island to the left.
North-west Highland Place Names
The landscape of the North-west Highlands and the Gaelic language are intimately connected. Other languages have contributed to the richness of our place names, notably Norse, but the North-west Highlands have for centuries been a Gaelic landscape. In listing the meanings of place names I have relied on authoritative sources wherever possible. For further information about sources please refer to North-west Highland Place Names in the main menu.
Crasg; Gaelic, An Crasg, Gaelic, ‘the crossing’; a ridge crossed by the road.
Loch Gairloch; Gaelic An Gearr-loch, the short loch.
Lonemore; Part of Gairloch. Gaelic; an Lòn Mór meaning the ‘great damp meadow’ according to Watson and ‘the big meadow’ according to Apamapa.
Longa Island; From the Norse Lung-ey meaning the ‘ship isle’. The passage between it and the mainland is called An Caol Beag, ‘the little narrow’.
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