The lush, wooded coastline of Loch Moidart, a supreme , unspoiled landscape/seacape renowned for its many rocky, pine-fringed islands and extensive sandbanks, when the tide is out, Inverness-shire, Scotland.

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The “Silver Walk,” so named because of a hoard of Elizabethan coins, found nearby, is a fantastic, if rocky, path connecting Doirlinn and Castle Tioram to the head of Loch Moidart near Drynie Hill.

This area is largely an undiscovered jewel in the West Coast’s inventory of world-class scenery.

The steep wooded slopes and islands are wonderful.

Straight out of a Tolkien fantasy.

It feels completely unique, dreamy, peaceful and beautiful,

yet, though remote, and removed from the madding crowd,

it still retains a warm, cosy familiarity.

At low tide there is a wide expanse of pink sand and mud

dotted with a myriad of islets, skerries and rocks.

When the tide is in, the oak and pine-laden islands

are like emerald jewels set in a cobalt blue sea.

Fortunately, Moidart’s remoteness is its greatest quality.

Only an adventurous few reach its shores, but their assured approval will mean they will return,

again and again and again.

 

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