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Crinan Basin, a mooring base for boats using the Crinan Canal, Argyll, Scotland.

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Tranquillity personified.

Man-made, but calm.

Crinan Canal and Basin was built to save a 120-mile journey

around the Kintyre Peninsula from Loch Fyne to the Argyll Coast of ancient Dalriada.

 

On a summer’s morning, after 07:00, the sun had not yet burnt off the night clouds.

Countless boat-trips are possible on this three-and-a-half-thousand mile western seaboard, but few can be as peaceful

and scenic as this canal trip.

 

Mountains, moors, lochs, forest, islands, sea-lochs, cliffs, boats and wildlife are a delight to the eye, at every twist and turn.

 

This engineering marvel of Telford and Rennie must have brought pleasure to thousands of sea-farers over the last two-hundred years, and, as seen here, must still do so.

 

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Uploaded on November 1, 2024
Taken on July 23, 2010