Best of Scotland 2016
a dolly on tour
Honestly, when I got home I could not remember where this photo was taken. I knew it was somewhere on the road between Urquhart castle and our lunch stop in Fort Augustus. My excellent google skills have identified it as the Telford Bridge at Invermoriston. We learned from our tour guide that “inver” means “mouth of the river,” so Inverness is at the mouth of the river Ness, and Invermoriston is the mouth of the river Moriston. And sure enough, the Rick Steves Scotland 2016 guidebook can teach us the rest.
The Telford Bridge at Invermoriston is “a stone bridge, dating from 1805, which spans Moriston Falls as part of the original road.” Rick also some identifies some other structures from engineer Thomas Telford (look for “Telford” in the book’s index), and in the “past and present” section Telford is nicknamed “The Colossus of Roads.” I can’t remember all of the Telford structures we saw on our tour, but the bridge in Dunkeld is one, and so are the locks on the loch in Fort Augustus.
We stopped for lunch in Fort Augustus. It was a lot of fun to say that there were “locks on the loch,” but as our guide said, once you’ve seen one lock you’ve seen them all.
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But, I've included some photos in case some readers haven't seen a lock!