Today we walked up through the Beinn Bhraggie forestry and out onto the open moorland above Culmaily in search of what the Ordnance Survey had marked on the map as 'Waterfalls'. These were on the Culmaily Burn which drains from Loch Lunndaidh to Loch Fleet, passing just to the north of Silver Rock - pictured, the burn being tucked into the dead ground between the track and the ben.
The views across to Loch Fleet and the Dornoch and Moray Firths are spectacular but....
...our approach to the burn was hampered by very broken and boggy ground covered in dense thickets of gorse which, in places....
....had been burnt in the fire which swept across this area a couple of years ago. At closest approach we could just about see the burn through the thicket entanglement.
The fire was two years ago and regeneration has been surprisingly quick. The moss, in a mass of different colours, seems to have recovered first but there are now plenty of young gorse bushes.
We worked our way steadily down the glen, trying to get closer to the burn until, finally, we came across a well-used deer track which....
....led us down to an open area from which we had an unobstructed view of the burn.
The most impressive 'waterfalls' were, in fact, 'water slides', the slope being at almost 45 degrees. We haven't had too much rain in recent days but the Culmaily Burn....
....would be a very impressive sight after a heavy downpour.
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