Riverside Walk River Dee Aberdeen
Rising high in the Cairngorms, the upper Dee flows through a fairyland of delightful surroundings, past Braemar, Invercauld, Balmoral, and Ballater. Perhaps the most enchanting view of this part of Deeside is to be obtained on the road which comes from Donside, where it crosses the watershed between Gairn Shiel and Crathie. Here one can look southwards over the Dee valley far below to the huge massif of Lochnagar and its surrounding hills. To the west lie Ben Avon and the Cairngorms, and to the south-east Mount Keen and the lesser hills towards Angus. All this affords a magnificent panorama, such wonderful heather-covered scenery, with bare rock and patches of snow on the high tops, a home for the grouse and deer as well as for salmon, and 'a vast country of hills', as it has been vividly described. Another magnificent view of upper Deeside is to be found on the road from Blairgowrie [through Glenshee] to Braemar, as one descends from the Devil's Elbow, and has one's first sight of Braemar in the Dee valley below and looks across to Ben Avon and Cairngorms beyond. Truly in this part of the Highlands the roads are built over the hills as often as through the glens, and what traveller could fail to appreciate the magnificent spectacle which as a result continually unfolds itself before his eyes? It is amid such surroundings that the upper Dee pursues its course. At intervals along its banks are lovely woods of birch, fir, and pine; and even if these latter are subject to the dictates of scientific forestry, and are seldom truly wild, they enrich the scenery and provide welcome shelter for fishermen whenever they approach the riverside. The pleasant scent of pine needles and pine woods is in fact a typical characteristic of the Dee, sufficient when encountered elsewhere to conjure up nostalgic memories of that beautiful river, as it pursues its rock course from pool to pool along its hill-girt valley. For the whole of its course the Dee has practically every advantage
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Location: River Dee, Aberdeen, Grampian Region. Scotland. United Kingdom.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
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