The Highlands and Islands

On this new tour we will take you to some of these loca­tions, many of which have nev­er fea­tured in an Aspect2i tour before.

Start­ing at our first base in Oban we are ide­al­ly placed to explore the islands lying south­west of the town, includ­ing Seil, Eas­dale and Luing. The short fer­ry jour­neys to these islands are part of the adven­ture of explor­ing these sel­dom vis­it­ed places. With a rich his­to­ry based around the ear­li­est quar­ry­ing of slate in the Unit­ed King­dom, report­ed­ly start­ing in the mid 16^th cen­tu­ry, there are fas­ci­nat­ing traces of the quar­ries set against the back­drop of won­der­ful coastal scenery with views towards Mull pro­vid­ing a pletho­ra of pho­to­graph­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties, includ­ing flood­ed quar­ries, aban­doned jet­ties and fas­ci­nat­ing coastal rock formations. 

Wood­land Atmos­phere and Icon­ic High­land Views

In addi­tion to the fas­ci­nat­ing islands, we will take time to vis­it some of the spec­tac­u­lar wood­lands con­tained with­in Bar­cal­dine For­est and admire the views includ­ing the icon­ic Cas­tle Stalk­er, perched on its rocky out­crop, stand­ing as a guardian of the sur­round­ing mountains. 

Mov­ing on from our base in Oban we will make the short jour­ney south to the Kin­tyre Penin­su­lar. Kin­tyre is a 30-mile-long tran­quil penin­su­la that runs from Tar­bert in the south­west of Argyll and Bute at its norther­ly point down to its most souther­ly point, the Mull of Kin­tyre and at no point does it exceed 11 miles across.

The Qui­et Beau­ty of the Kin­tyre Peninsula

Because of its shape, Kin­tyre has two very dif­fer­ent coast­lines. To the west where the sun sets there are sandy beach­es with gin clear waters that look out over to the isles of Jura and Islay. The east­ern coast­line is only accessed by small​‘B’ roads and is a haven of won­der­ful rock for­ma­tions on many rocky bays that look out over the calm water of the Kil­bran­nan Sound and offer the best views of the Isle of Arran from any­where in Scotland.

Arran’s Dra­mat­ic Coast and South­ern Sands

From the tiny port of Claon­aig, we will take the short half hour fer­ry ride over to the beau­ti­ful Isle of Arran. Land­ing at Lochran­za, we will take the pass over Glen Chal­madale to the coast at San­nox then trav­el south to pho­to­graph the amaz­ing rock struc­tures at Cor­rie Bay. No vis­it to the Isle of Arran would be com­plete with­out head­ing fur­ther onwards to the south­ern tip of the Isle to the Sands of Kil­do­nan from where you will see the amaz­ing pyra­mid Isle of Ail­sa Craig and from here we will explore the Arran Coastal Way.

If you are look­ing for a work­shop that takes you off the beat­en track to find images that nobody else will have then this is the work­shop that will cer­tain­ly sat­is­fy. You will be in the capa­ble hands of Mark Lawrence who has been vis­it­ing and pho­tograph­ing in Scot­land for over 40 years.