Cul Beag Stac Polly and Loch an Ais Inverpolly, Ullapool. Wester Ross. Scotland. XPL 3853-368
The Inverpolly National Nature Reserve was formed in 1961 by combining three estates - Inverpolly, Drumrunie and Eisg Brachaidh - and at nearly eleven thousand hectares is the second largest reserve in Britain after the Cairngorms. It comprises undulating heather moorland, peat bogs, lochs, pockets of birch, hazel and rowan woodland and is dominated by the magnificently isolated red Torridonian Sandstone peaks of Cul Mor (849m), Cul Beag (769m) and Stac Polly (613m) the smallest yet undoubtedly the most popular of the group and visited by thousands each year. Inverpolly's major lochs include Loch Lurgainn beneath Stac Polly, leading to Loch Badagyle and, in the middle of the reserve, Loch Sionascaig one of the largest and deepest in the area. Sionascaig is three miles in length, yet seventeen miles around its irregular shoreline. The A835 leads northwards from Ullapool and, at Drumrunie, a single track road enters the reserve, threading its way through the mountains. Badagyle Cottage is located at the fork of the road, which leads west to Achiltibuie and the tranquil Summer Isles, or north to Inverpolly Lodge, Inverkirkaig and Lochinver.
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Location: Knockan, Ullapool. Ross-shire. Highland Region. Scotland. United Kingdom.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
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