The Oban Times West Highland Calendar 2024

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Castle Tioram viewed from across Loch Moidart, Highland

Before leaving Moidart Alan of Clanranald, in 1715, is said to have given orders for the destruction of Castle Tioram, because he believed he would never return. The Lords of the Isles, Raymond Campbell Paterson, 2001

Steven Marshall

The mountains that hem in the silent loch have more of a kindly grandeur than any others in the Highlands.

Let’s See the Highlands, AA Thomson

Loch Affric in morning, Glen Affric

Tomasz Szatewicz / Land of Light Photography

Bluebells on the Island of Gigha, Argyll

Dennis Hardley / Scotphoto

The cattle of Rum and Eigg and part of Sleat were generally shipped to the mainland near Mallaig or Arisaig, bound for Fort William and the South. The Drove Roads of Scotland, ARB Haldane

Rùm with cattle on the sands of Bay of Laig, Eigg

Neil Barr

When summer decks the Oban hills, Wi’ fern and heather bells, Bonnie Oban Bay, John MacDonald

Mull Ferry arrives in Oban Bay as seen from Kerrera, Argyll

Dennis Hardley / Scotphoto

Inveraray Castle and Dùn na Cuaiche, Argyll

Neil Barr

Inveraray Castle assimilates very well with the scene, though its round turrets and elevated dome bid defiance even to the rules of Gothic architecture.

Tour in the Highlands & Western Islands, 1800, Dr John Leyden

Against the hard and pale blue evening sky The mountain’s new-dropped summer snow is clear Meeting Among the Mountains, DH Lawrence

River Coupall, Lagangarbh Hut and Buachaille Etive Mòr, Glencoe

Tomasz Szatewicz / Land of Light Photography

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!

Duck’s Ditty, Kenneth Grahame

Glencoe Lochan, Glencoe, Highland Tomasz Szatewicz / Land of Light Photography

Here proud Ben Nevis, snowy crowned, Rests throned amidst the clouds; There Lochy’s deep and silvery wave, A royal city shrouds; Lochaber for Ever, Alice Claire MacDonell

Looking across Loch Lochy to Ben Nevis, Highland

Peter Chisholm / Alamy Stock Photo

Loch Eil and Ben Nevis

Tomasz Szatewicz / Land of Light Photography

Gu Bràighe Loch Iall, Far am bith fiadh s’an langan To the Braes of Locheil, Where the bellowing stags are Bràighe Loch Iall, The Braes of Locheil, Traditional song

Jacobite Steam Train, Loch Nan Uamh Viaduct, Highland

John Bracegirdle / Alamy Stock Photo

The legend of builder Robert McAlpine’s horse and cart falling down inside a pier of Glenfinnan viaduct was corrected in 2001 when radar imaging proved that the event occurred here in the centre pier.  Plaque unveiled July 2002 by Sir William McAlpine Bt at the viaduct

Winter doesn’t make us better, then, or worse, But enables us to find ourselves again, Because it forces us to be quiet

Winter wonderland by Coupall Falls to Glen Etive at Rannoch Moor, Highlands

Carolyn Jenkins / Alamy Stock Photo

Winter, Alexander McCall Smith

At The Oban Times we live and work amidst stunning scenery and we have captured it for you in all its glory, day and night, throughout the year. Here is a gift for a friend far from their native home or a fond reminder for you of a holiday here amongst the lochs, glens, mountains and shores. The Oban Times Calendar will bring you a little bit of the West Highlands every day of the year.

INCLUDED INSIDE COVER: Jacobite Steam Train,

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