GLEN AFFRIC
30 miles west of
Millwood House
One of the most beautiful landscapes in Scotland, with slender lochs in
the valley, well-wooded hillsides and a river rising among the 3,000 ft
mountains at its head. Wild roe deer can be spotted here in the spring and
winter months - look out for them at dawn and dusk or on the open hill above
the tree line. Badger, fox, otter, red squirrel, stoat and weasel are all to
be found. Glen Affric has been greatly altered by two separate interests.
In 1946 the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board dammed the
River Glass to create Loch Beinn a
Mheadhain. Its power station at Fasnakyle is unobtrusively located and is
faced with local yellow sandstone. It is well worth taking the walk to the
two waterfalls in the narrow Affric gorge - the Badger Fall and the Dog
Fall, the scenery is splendid. |
