Believe it or not but they are hauling timber from one side of Ben Lawers to the other on the single track road that has become a ‘must do’ for motorcyclists —
You wouldn’t want to argue ‘rights of way’ with this Tonka Toy if you were to meet him up there —
At a rough guess I would say there’s 60 to 70 tonnes gross moving along here and although the road looks good past the Lawers Dam I can assure you the strip down to the Bridge of Balgie side of the hill is no better than it was when I first rode it on my 350 Velo over sixty years ago —
There was an impressive flow of water going under the bridge and that big pool below looks ready to take a fly —
Not so much water farther up on the hillside – but enough to provide a picturesque picnic spot for Helen and I —
There was a time when ‘skinny dipping’ might have been on the agenda – but that was then —
and this is now – anyway – there were far more attractive things up there —
with the many butterflies on the thistles above Loch Tay —
putting on a show on our way home —
givitsum-from-a-distance 