inverness, finally something with "ness" XD - day 4

aiya... this month only 6 posts done and 5 of them are travel posts ah... tsk tsk tsk... XD

anyway, travel post still~~~ i will jia you to finish this soon~ inverness inverness~~

again, stunning view all the way from edin to the northern town.
on the 4th bridge. dunno where are the first 3s... :P

can see the greenish sea below :)

country side~~~ assorted pine XP

wonder wot those white dots on the hills are? sheeeeeeeeeeps! XD


the journey north, into the highlands, it was a game of spotting :D
red pheasants at the edge of the long-grassed fields, nimble deers hopping in the thinner woods, different species of sheeps, cows and horses,fluffy-feather-like snow caps, castles, scattered settlements, mountain ranges like the spine of the roof top, creeks running down their sides like creases draining rain to rivers that acts like gutters in turn... that the change of scenery as the lattitude increases.

most of the mountains are quite bare and rocky with only short greens carpeting them. sheeps were grazing at the edges of the clifts. i wondered if they will get hurt tumbling down with such thick shock absorbers wrapping them at this time of the year. 3 bags full of wools! one for the master, one for the dame, and one for the little boy who lives down the lane~~~ not quite spring yet they say. new borned lambs are seen, but certainly no wool cutting yet. but certainly, it made me wonder how did the english cross this terrain to threaten the highlanders back then?

rainbows can be seen almost everywhere. since most of the time the sky is sunnier than my brother 阳 on one side and rainier than that korean guy on entertainment news Rain on the otherside. creeks, originated from the melting snow, that runs parallel to the roads, or roads that are constructed parallel to the creeks nourishes the lands and fields and herds.

and we entered the region of the snowy mountains :)

like watching frames of movies ^^

the grazing ground

rich highlander's house~

classic highlander's house~ with 5 footballs scattered in the front yard! ^^

highland cows~

nessie in the sky~~~ aye~ cloud pattern ^^

up to this point, all photos posted up there were taken in the bus XD

but here we are! river ness~




glasgow was red, edin was yellow, inverness is brown, mainly because of the colour of the kind of stone available in the surrounding mountains to make bricks. aye, they dont paint so much. all three places dominated by gulls tho. many times, i've been just pointing my nose at the sky, gazing at their elegant wind gliding flights ^^

inverness castle~

the town~

the erm... graveyard again XD

the xxx canal~



signs for the great glen hikers ^^ which will be proved to be very useful in the coming story! ^^

we took a late bus thru the length of loch ness to fort augustus, a town lying at the south end of the loch, opposing inverness in the north. oh yeah! one thing i forgot to mention, de busses in scotland, if you dont wave, they wont stop!
we slept in "glamis castle" that 4th nite ^^ 一夜无话

coming up next is the much anticipated hike along loch ness! :D