Loch Glencoul, Highland
Loch Glencoul stretches south east from the bridge at Kylesku
At the head of the loch is the 650ft high Eas a Chual Aulinn waterfall, the UK's highest and 4 times the height of the Niagara Falls.
Boat trips leave from Kylesku pier to view the waterfall, the Common Seal colony and other wildlife.
Loch Glencoul is also an excellent place to view the effects of thrust faulting during the Caledonian mountain building. Older metamorphic rocks have been moved up on top of the Cambrian succession rocks on a major thrust fault (the Glencoul Thrust).
Date: June 1999
Location: view from the A894 road just south of Kylesku
At the head of the loch is the 650ft high Eas a Chual Aulinn waterfall, the UK's highest and 4 times the height of the Niagara Falls.
Boat trips leave from Kylesku pier to view the waterfall, the Common Seal colony and other wildlife.
Loch Glencoul is also an excellent place to view the effects of thrust faulting during the Caledonian mountain building. Older metamorphic rocks have been moved up on top of the Cambrian succession rocks on a major thrust fault (the Glencoul Thrust).
Date: June 1999
Location: view from the A894 road just south of Kylesku
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