Image Details
Popular with visitors and locals alike, Gairloch Beach is in a fine setting, sandwiched between Loch Gairloch and the view to Skye, and the golf course backed by the Torridon mountains.
The sand dunes which run along the edge of the golf course are fragile and suffer erosion. Not long after I moved to Wester Ross there was a big storm and the resulting heavy seas badly damaged the dunes. The council undertook restoration work, replanting the grasses and closed access to the dunes to give them time to recover.
By the time I had taken this photograph seven years later the dunes had recovered and the walkway along them had been re-opened. This walk can now be followed to the hill on the far right of this photograph, and then from there the walk continues over the hill and eventually ends at Gairloch Harbour.
Copyright © 2008 Gordon C Harrison All Rights Reserved