Salen Bay, Loch Sunart, Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Scotland.
Commentary.
Like a wriggling, thirty-five-mile-long serpent,
Loch Sunart twists and turns its amazing course.
Separating the superbly beautiful, remote areas of
Mull, Ardnamurchan, Moidart and Sunart
from Morvern, to the south, this sea-loch rings
with the names of its masterpiece landmarks.
Beinn Resipol, Strontian, Salen, Laga Bay,
Glenborrodale, Glenmore Bay, Camus nan Geall,
Oronsay and Carna Islands, Tobermory,
Ben Hiant and Kilchoan.
This finger of sea throbs with life,
beneath and above the waves.
The ancient oak, moss-hung woodlands over 12,000 years old.
Amazing forests of multi-coloured rhododendrons and azaleas around the glorious Glenborrodale.
Verdant slopes of lava-flows on Ben Hiant.
The mighty sea-eagles from their loch-side tree eyries and golden eagles from their craggy hill-bound eyries.
Cetacea like basking sharks as the loch widens to four miles opposite Mull.
Seabed species like:-
squat lobster, cuckoo wrasse, kelp, horse mussels, flame shells, fan mussels, ocean sunfish, jellyfish, jewel and firework anemones, tall sea-pens, northern feather stars, and leatherback turtles.
On meeting the Atlantic, the culmination of visual splendour must be the astounding silver sands of Sanna Bay.
Here, sumptuous, calm, Salen Bay is set off by a fringe of golden seaweed and a foreground of calm waters and wild Dog-Rose.
A simply exquisite natural paradise,
a fitting reward, for the relatively few souls,
that venture this far off the beaten track.
Salen Bay, Loch Sunart, Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Scotland.
Commentary.
Like a wriggling, thirty-five-mile-long serpent,
Loch Sunart twists and turns its amazing course.
Separating the superbly beautiful, remote areas of
Mull, Ardnamurchan, Moidart and Sunart
from Morvern, to the south, this sea-loch rings
with the names of its masterpiece landmarks.
Beinn Resipol, Strontian, Salen, Laga Bay,
Glenborrodale, Glenmore Bay, Camus nan Geall,
Oronsay and Carna Islands, Tobermory,
Ben Hiant and Kilchoan.
This finger of sea throbs with life,
beneath and above the waves.
The ancient oak, moss-hung woodlands over 12,000 years old.
Amazing forests of multi-coloured rhododendrons and azaleas around the glorious Glenborrodale.
Verdant slopes of lava-flows on Ben Hiant.
The mighty sea-eagles from their loch-side tree eyries and golden eagles from their craggy hill-bound eyries.
Cetacea like basking sharks as the loch widens to four miles opposite Mull.
Seabed species like:-
squat lobster, cuckoo wrasse, kelp, horse mussels, flame shells, fan mussels, ocean sunfish, jellyfish, jewel and firework anemones, tall sea-pens, northern feather stars, and leatherback turtles.
On meeting the Atlantic, the culmination of visual splendour must be the astounding silver sands of Sanna Bay.
Here, sumptuous, calm, Salen Bay is set off by a fringe of golden seaweed and a foreground of calm waters and wild Dog-Rose.
A simply exquisite natural paradise,
a fitting reward, for the relatively few souls,
that venture this far off the beaten track.