Loch Fleet, Golspie, Sutherland, North East Scotland.
A deserted point along the southern shore of Loch Fleet. There was a time when this very place would have been busy fulfilling the vital role as a link, a short cut, across the Loch. All that remains are the rotting wooden supports for the ferry pier linking the little hamlet of Little Ferry (the house on the far shore) and nearby Golspie with Inverness and the south.
. The Loch Fleet ferry was just one of many similar Ferries that enabled relatively speedy, and certainly more direct routes, across Northern Scotland with its coast line shaped and jagged with Lochs and rivers. Today the trunk road is directed along the edge of the Loch and across a modern bridge that crosses the Firth of Fleet
For our modern vehicles the diversions seem no distance…. but when transport was horse drawn at best the Ferry was a welcome friend of the traveller.
12th March
(C) David Oakes 2015
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