Quite a few miles under the wheels this week as I am now in Somerset and heading for Cornwall. From Bute I went to Galloway for a couple of days - another quiet area of Scotland with scenery varying from deciduous woodland in valleys, forestry commission firs and bare moors on the highest areas.
Loch Doon Castle, built in the 14th. century on an island, was dismantled in the 1930’s, when Loch Doon water levels were raised for hydro electricity, and rebuilt on the shore.
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| Loch Doon Castle |
Crawick Multiverse near Sanquhar is a large park of landscape sculptures by Charles Jencks, maker also of “Northumberlandia”, reclining female form visited earlier in the year. The Crawick site was donated by the Duke of Buccleuch on the waste site of his open cast coal mines. The catalogue describes it:
“The landscape represents various cosmic patterns and combines four ecologies - grasslands, mountains, a water gorge and a desert. It takes you on a journey past the Milky Way to a supercluster of galaxies and then to the multiverse”. Be that as it may, the various land forms are interesting and sometimes dramatic.
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| Northpoint sign |
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| Sun amphitheatre |
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Multiverse in background
Supercluster in foreground |
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| Andromeda and Milky Way |
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| North South line |
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| Cosmic Collision |
