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This is Loch Ewe on the North-west Scottish coast on a bright day in late Autumn. I had been in Gairloch for some reason that I can't recall now, and was en route home when this wonderful landscape came into view at one of my favourite viewpoints. At the time I was so pleased to be getting such excellent light that I didn't notice the way in which the clouds mirrored the land below them, giving the image similarities to a reflection.
Loch Ewe is a NATO base today, and during WWII it was a huge military base where the arctic convoys gathered before sailing with munitions to northern Russia, an endeavor which resulted in the deaths of many of those exposed to the dangers of German U-boats, not to mention the cruel arctic seas.
This photograph is taken from the site of the Convoy Anchorage Signal Station (CASS) which provided direct communications to the convoy commodores ship.
On the far left is the Cove/Inverasdale peninsula, and on the far right the Aultbea/Mellon Charles peninsula. The island, Isle of Ewe, in inhabited by several families. Children on the island travel back and forth each day in small boats for school, but in case bad weather prevents them getting home arrangements are made with families on the mainland to look after them until the weather improves.
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