Castle Coeffin (20 of 20)
It was at about this point in time that I started thinking about that quarry I mentioned earlier, visible on the far side of Loch Linnhe. Called the Glensanda Quarry, it is an enormous enterprise, and while it can't be invisible, it has been designed to minimise its visual impact. There is no road in or out of it, everything has to come and go by sea. The actual quarrying operation is not taking place down near the shore line, it is taking place up near the top of the mountain, where you can just see a pale line. The granite goes through a primary crusher up at the quarry and is then fed into a vertical shaft that takes it down to near sea-level, where a conveyor belt then takes it to the secondary crusher on the sea-shore, after which it gets loaded onto ships and sent off all around the country and overseas.
My interest in it is that on the shoreline, not far from the loading facility, there is a castle! To get to it, keeping in mind there is no road, involves a long full day's walk across the wilds of Morvern and back. However, it is only 4.27 kilometers away from here and my drone has a theoretical range greater than that, and its across water, so the signal strength should not attenuate too much! My only worry is recalcitrant seagulls!
Castle Coeffin (20 of 20)
It was at about this point in time that I started thinking about that quarry I mentioned earlier, visible on the far side of Loch Linnhe. Called the Glensanda Quarry, it is an enormous enterprise, and while it can't be invisible, it has been designed to minimise its visual impact. There is no road in or out of it, everything has to come and go by sea. The actual quarrying operation is not taking place down near the shore line, it is taking place up near the top of the mountain, where you can just see a pale line. The granite goes through a primary crusher up at the quarry and is then fed into a vertical shaft that takes it down to near sea-level, where a conveyor belt then takes it to the secondary crusher on the sea-shore, after which it gets loaded onto ships and sent off all around the country and overseas.
My interest in it is that on the shoreline, not far from the loading facility, there is a castle! To get to it, keeping in mind there is no road, involves a long full day's walk across the wilds of Morvern and back. However, it is only 4.27 kilometers away from here and my drone has a theoretical range greater than that, and its across water, so the signal strength should not attenuate too much! My only worry is recalcitrant seagulls!