A stone cross above a tapered rectangular column situated on a small hill at the junction of the A 862 and A 831 a mile or so west of Beauly itself.

World War dedications and names. An inscription states “Parish of Kilmorack” in which parish Beauly lies. There is also a name for 1979, presumably a death in Northern Ireland:-

The War Memorial for the parish of Resolis lies beside the B 9163 road in Cromarty.

A stone column with carved crossed sword and rifle enclosed by a wreath, all surmounted by an urn:-

Great War dedication and names:-

Second World War dedication and names:-

Some of Hugh Miller’s possessions:-

Fossil finds:-

More fossils:-

Mudstone:-

Hugh Miller was a pioneering geologist and fossil collector who was born in Cromarty.

The cottage of his birthplace is now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland.

Exterior:-

The actual cottage is to the left above, the building next to it is a museum.

Cottage interior:-

Garden to rear showing thtched roof of cottage:-

Garden:-

Sculpture in garden:-

Fortrose’s  War Memorial is the entrance arch to the cathedral precincts:-

GreatWar dedication and names:-

Second World War dedication and names:-

The hotel we stayed at on our trip north last April was by Torbreck, Inverness.

There was an avenue of trees leading off the road that led (eventueally) to Loch Ness:-

And a nice wee burn with a bridge over it close by:-

The burn from the bridge:-

On our trip up north last year we stayed a few nights in Inverness. At the War Memorial I noticed a few changes since I had first photographed it in 2018.

The Edith Cavell gardens are now more open:-

Flower bed with Gaelic inscription stone. This translates as Field of Remembrance:-

There was now a ‘ghost’ soldier:-

Plus three memorial benches.

Two for the Great War:-

And one for 1939-1945:-

Kingussie War Memorial with Indian Memorial to left:-

The memorial is a celtic cross on a tapering pillar atop a square base:-

Dedication:-

Great War names:-

Second World War names:-

Nearby Memorial Bench to Great War dead:-

In the first Jacobite Rebellion (in 1689) a battle took place at the Pass of Killiecrankie.

I had always meant to visit the site but somehow never had until April last year, despite it being only three miles from Pitlochry which we have visited many times.

The Pass is a very tight space between two steep hills on either side of the River Garry. Not an obvious spot for a battle.

The government forces were advancing from the south to remove the Jacobite presence from Blair Castle just to the north and were attacked from the hills by the Jacobites under the command of John Graham of Claverhouse (aka ‘Bonnie Dundee’) scourge of the Covenanters by whom he was later dubbed ‘Bluidy Clavers’.

Such was the lack of space in the Pass the government troops could only line up three deep, firing up the hill.

The Jacobites were victorious but Dundee was killed by a musket ball. With his death the Jacobites lost their militarily talented leader and the rebellion petered out soon after.

In the government soldiers’ retreat one of them was forced to make a desperate jump acros the river to escape capture (or worse.) A path leads down from the Killiecrankie Visitor Centre to the site of the leap.

Soldier’s Leap:-

Video:-

We took a trip through to Dumbarton in November 2024 and stopped off at the Loch Lomond Shores shopping complex.

By the entrance was this model of The Maid of the Loch, the last paddle steamer on Loch Lomond which I hvave featured here and here:-

The Moon over the Rock (somewhat outdone by the floodlights):-