Beinn Bheag Dheas Inverness-shire

Images are sourced within 2km of 57.237289/-7.327019 or Grid Reference NF7828. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Sloc Dubh

Looking towards Beinn Mhor.

Hugh Venables

Evening Sunshine

After some gloomy weather, the setting sun broke through the clouds for a short fine spell.

Anne Burgess

Rubha nan Sruthan

The peninsula on the north side of the narrowest part of Loch Aineort.

Anne Burgess

Loch Aineort

Looking to Eilean an Easbuig.

Gordon Brown

Estate boundary fence

Just inshore from Loch Aineort.

Gordon Brown

Loch Aineort

Gordon Brown

Loch Aineort's hidden harbour

This tiny harbour on Loch Aineort, South Uist, is not much wider than a single car garage. Maybe this is why it escaped the OS cartographers! I haven't been able to find it on any map including all the scales available on MAGIC. It does, however, show up clearly on Google Earth.

AlastairG

Small woodland above Loch Aineort

Alan Pickup

Damsel fly

Alan Pickup

Path along the Sloc Dubh

The path leaves the lochside to climb steeply up to Bealach Crosgard on Ben More

Tom Richardson

Sloc Dubh and Loch Aineort

The nearest stretch of water is an almost landlocked arm of Loch Aineort, linked only by the narrow inlet just to the left of the two erratics perched on the hillside. The distant hills are Stulabhal and Airneabhal, with the lower peak of Beinn Ailean in between.

Anne Burgess

Lewisian Gneiss

The ice-smoothed rocks above sloc Dubh contain pale grey gneiss intruded by dark mafic dykes, all reworked in the Laxfordian deformations.

Anne Burgess

Lewisian Gneiss

An outcrop of pale gneiss striped with dark mafic intrusions on the slopes above Sloc Dubh.

Anne Burgess

Sloc Dubh

These islands in the northern part of Sloc Dubh are tidal, cut off only when the tide is high. Stulabhal and Airneabhal are in the background, beyond Loch Aineort.

Anne Burgess

Sloc Dubh

The falling tide exposes brown seaweed and mud around the tidal islets at the north end of Sloc Dubh.

Anne Burgess

Looking Towards Beinn na Tobha

The tide has left the seaweed-covered boulders in Sloc Dubh high and dry, though there is just enough water left to reflect the blue of the sky. Beinn na Tobha, in the next square, dominates the scene.

Anne Burgess

Sloc Dubh and Beinn nan Caorach

Sloc Dubh, in the foreground, and the low ridge immediately above it are all in square, but the hills beyond are not. Beinn nan Caorach is the low hill in the centre, with Bealach Crosgard separating it from Beinn Mhòr, the summit of which is hidden in the cloud.

Anne Burgess

Loch Aineort

The surface of the water reveals that a strong southerly wind is blowing. The land at left is Eilean an Easbuig, and ahead is Rubha nan Struthan, the point of the peninsula which separates Sloc Dubh from the open sea in that direction. The hill is Stulabhal.

Anne Burgess

Beinn Bheag Dheas is located at Grid Ref: NF7828 (Lat: 57.237289, Lng: -7.327019)