I took that specially for you, Roger.
When sister said we were going through Dalwhinnie, just had to stop and take a picture. Went in as well and bought a wee bottle of Dalwhinnie malt and a couple of postcards (the postcards to make it enough to use card as didn't have enough cash). Is your hotel still there? I know it's probably not a hotel any more, but I couldn't work out where it was. Maybe we didn't go past it, as we went off to Spean Bridge.
I forgot to say that some of the "dark and brooding" photos were taken in the evening, so even more "dark and brooding". I'm afraid my wee camera doesn't do full justice to the actual views. You really need to be there to appreciate it fully. The second day we were on Skye we went down to the south coast and were just blown away by the views of the mainland. It's actually the clouds and light that make the views so stunning. It honestly looked just like a painting, only changing in light and colour all the time. The pics look more impressive full size as well - Picassa makes them quite small, but it's so convenient to load them up there.
Staffin Bay is on the east side of the top of the island, Peeps. Uig is on the west at about the same level - some pictures in there of the ferry leaving for Lewis. Your chocolate hills were probably formed the same way - my sister kept sprouting all these geographical terms at me, like "truncated spurs" and "morainic mounds". We had a geography teacher who loved glaciated valleys.
