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Cawdor Castle fills this image, below a cloudless blue sky on the tour that also visits Culloden and Clava. The castle is grey stone, with green lawns in front, some shrubs either side of the small drawbridge, and large trees behind. The 1300s Keep is square and four storeys high with battlements and a pepper-pot tower at each corner. It is only two windows wide on each side. There are four other wings, in front and to each side, all built of matching stone, but dating from the 1600's, 1700's and 1800's. Although organic, the resulting building is pleasingly consistent and attractive.

We are standing beneath a tiny turret, made from carved yellow stone. The underside, which is above our heads, is decoratively worked with delicate semi circles increasing in size as it goes upwards. That is where it meets a square stone, also worked with increasing decorative square trim. The sky is cloudless and the palest of blues.

Cawdor Castle with Culloden and Clava Tour – 6hrs

£560.00 8 hours

The foreground is a large stone (on the Culloden Battlefield and Clava Cairns Walking Tour) inscribed with the words Well of the Dead, Here the chief of the MacGillivrays Fell. A quarry dust path passes to the left, and the grass behind the stone terminated at the foot of a dry stone wall that crosses the picture right to left. Behind the wall are wild long grasses and shrubs, and above is a clear blue sky.

In front of us is the north-east passage grave on the Culloden Battlefield and Clava Cairns Walking Tour. There is grass in the foreground, and two prominent standing stones, one to the extreme left, the other the extreme right. Between and slightly behind them is the roofless bronze age cairn, with the mouth of the entry passage towards us. In the background are large, leafy, deciduous trees.

Culloden Battlefield and Clava Cairns Walking Tour – 2hrs

£120.00 2 hours

We stand in a grass filled moat, surrounded by the massive walls and sentry towers of a British Army 1700's artillery fortification. In the far distance ahead of us is a gently rising ridge of land covered with forest and farmland. Above is a blue sky with some white clouds.

The 20 foot tall cylindrical cairn at Culloden dominates this shot taken on the Fort George with Culloden and Clava Tour. A flat grassy field surrounds it, and back right some distance away is the low and unobtusive single-storey visitor centre. There is a hill ridge on the far back right-hand distant horizon. By far the most striking feature in the shot, however, is the vivid double rainbow in the dark sky above the monument.

Fort George with Culloden and Clava Tour – 6hrs

£400.00 6 hours

Two huge, ruined, medieval, flat-topped, cathedral towers in Elgin Cathedral on the Local Dark Deeds Tour. The sky above is quite a strong blue with wisps of white cloud. The stone is predominantly a red sandstone. A ruined wall ties these two towers together, and holds the ruined framework which would originally have held a massive arched window (the largest in the cathedral).

The foreground is a beautifully mown lawn, and most of the rest of the frame is filled with the main buildings of a restored 1200's abbey, in grey stone with slate roofs. The sky is cloudy blue.

Local Dark Deeds Tour – 8 to 9hrs

£560.00 9 hours

A ruined castle rises on a wooded outcrop from the waters of a lake. Our viewpoint is from a boat offshore. In the background, behind the castle rises a hill with farms and farmland upon it. The sky is white.

Looking across a single track road on our Loch Ness and Fort Augustus Tour. There is a wall, and beyond that a churchyard with church and graves. The foreground is dominated by a single pole with 5 signs one above the other all pointing different ways with very Scottish names on. Blue sky above.

Loch Ness and Fort Augustus Tour – 6hrs

£560.00 8 hours

The foreground is the calm (but non-reflective) blue waters of a lake, surrounded by Caledonian pines, visited on the Loch Ness and Glen Affric Tour. In the distant background are tall snow-dappled mountains. The sky is the palest of blues.

Tumbling river rapids, lots of rocks and boulders, white water and blue water all fill the foreground of this Loch Ness and Glen Affric Tour image. The banks are clothed in Caledonian pine, some small deciduous trees, and in the distance on a hill to the left, some other pines. The sky is blue.

Loch Ness and Glen Affric Tour – 6hrs

£560.00 8 hours

A large monument with bushes on the top stands 20 feet tall under a vivid blue sky on an open moor on our Loch Ness with Culloden and Urquhart Castle Tour

The lower half of the image taken on the Loch Ness with Culloden and Urquhart Castle Tour is filled with the dark calm waters of a lake. Just above the mid-line is a rocky promontery with a very ruined castle, grass and bushes. Behind rises a tree-covered hill (higher towards the left. Above is a sky of mixed blue and cloud.

Loch Ness with Culloden and Urquhart Castle Tour – 8 to 9hrs

£560.00 9 hours

The River Ness is on the left, flowing towards us. On the opposite bank is a street of old houses, and 4 different steepled buildings, interspersed at distances upstream. The most distant building on the far bank is Inverness Castle, against the sky. The day is sunny and the sky is mainly blue. On our bank of the river are a line of mature deciduous trees, in leaf, and another street of old houses. There is a shingle bar to our immediate left, in the river.

The right hand side of the image is the 1500's, white, 2-storey Abertarff House on the Old Inverness Walking Tour. The left hand side of the image is a manicured lawn surrounded by an ivy-covered wall and old trees. Above is a mainly clear blue sky.

Old Inverness Walking Tour – 2hrs

£110.00 2 hours

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