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From Tollie one can walk back over the hill tops to a point where you are overlooking the village of Poolewe and Loch Ewe. This is what I did to take this photograph.
In this view you can see the River Ewe, Scotland's shortest river, where it flows out under the bridge at Poolewe and into Loch Ewe. The village of Poolewe is clustered around the bridge, and the part that runs alongside the river is called Riverside.
The tree-lined peninsula jutting out into Loch Ewe is the home for Inverewe Gardens, one of Scotland's most popular visitor attractions. Osgood Mackenzie, born in 1842, built the garden on this craggy promontory jutting out into Loch Ewe. He inherited the Gairloch Estate, but in 1862 the 5,000-hectare Inverewe and Kernsary Estates were bought for him and so began a life's work converting a wilderness into the exotic gardens we see today.
Beyond this peninsula we see the continuation Loch Ewe, in which at the time of taking this photograph the military were engaged in a major exercise, hence the naval craft you see. Beyond the ship is the Isle of Ewe, and finally there is the Rubha Mor peninsula on the shores of which are the villages of Aultbea and Mellon Charles.
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