Beautiful place!!

Wow - what a gorgeous place. Mind you, the roar of the traffic must make life hell in those houses, so close to the road...

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one of the best panoramas i've seen. the place is gorgeous...

very nice panorama. wish the hills could be greener, though. but cool.

Yup, that's exactly what I thought!

One or two of them might be bit too close to the sea for comfort, in a year or two's time. Well, maybe not quite that quickly. They're far enough up the loch that wave action isn't a big issue (the lock points east across the Minch, only a 30 mile fetch), and storm surges aren't an issue in the Minch (open to open Atlantic at both ends, and no pinch point). The only thing they need be concerned about is sea level rise and tides; they've got many decades at least.

Thanks! It is indeed a lovely place.

It's partly the time of year (all much greener later in the spring) and partly a matter of what the land's being used for - which is nothing in most of this picture.

It could all be a good deal greener if people were raising sheep on it - that's what's going on on the bits that are green - but sheep are only being raised there for the sake of the crofting subsidies, they're completely unprofitable otherwise.

Left to itself, this countryside does quietly grow peat. Some people are cutting peat for fuel for home heating, but fewer and fewer people are doing that in this area nowadays.

Otherwise, you could grow trees here.