Highland Birding Holiday Day 3 : 10th October 2013
The last day of our birding break was to be devoted to a bit more sea watching so we headed off for the coast first thing taking in some other sites en route.
We took the A939 out north out of Grantown-on-Spey and turned off for Lochindorb (Loch of the Minnows) where we hoped to perhaps see some late divers but, again, we were out of luck. The view was magnificent and the castle, once the home of the “Wolf of Badenoch” was an impressive sight. (He was a son of King Robert II of Scotland, and derived his name for his extreme cruelty and persecution of the church and anyone who opposed him in any way dispossessing and murdering at will. When his wife deserted him and the Bishop of Moray supported her, he left his stronghold at Lochindorb Castle and burned Forres and Elgin. In 1390 he burned Elgin Cathedral. Looking at the huge castle isolated in the middle of a vast loch it is easy to imagine how he felt so secure within it.) Continue reading