Sugar-Loaf Suilven looms dominant above a part of Loch Culag festooned with Water-Lilies, in a Sutherland Summer.

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Sugar-Loaf Suilven looms dominant above a part of Loch Culag festooned with Water-Lilies, in a Sutherland Summer.
Sugar-Loaf Suilven looms dominant above a part of Loch Culag festooned with Water-Lilies, in a Sutherland Summer.

Poem.

A green mantle of water-lilies on Loch Culag near Lochinver
is dominated by the mighty dome of Suilven.
This rounded sugar-loaf monolith rises from a “knock and lochan”* landscape like the back of a stirring prehistoric herbivore.

It dominates the landscape from all directions, taking on markedly varying profiles as it is circumnavigated.

Such a contrast – the lake throbbing with life – lilies, butterflies, frogspawn, damselflies, dragonflies, pond-skaters, water-boatmen and a spray of buzzing insects, including the infamous midge, as against the stark, bare, grey, steep slopes of Caisteal Liath, vertical in places.

Peaks here provide an alien, other-worldly aspect but the coastal fringes harbour green valleys, waterfalls and superb silver beaches.
Vistas a-plenty in the amazing, unique landscape of Sutherland.

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Taken on: July 29, 2008
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