Grand Tours of Scotland's Lochs episode 5
Grand Tours of Scotland's Lochs episode 5: 1.2 billion years ago, the far north of Sutherland was struck by a meteorite.
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00:04The beautiful scenery of the far
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00:18that is said to have been formed
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00:35water. It's been estimated that
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01:27Loch Shin to Loch Laxford.
01:29I then get to grips with our rocky
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01:48and this is the Wee Hoose.
01:51The story goes it was built in 1824
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02:10Jock felt that he needed a house to
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02:25He died after shooting himself
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03:00Aeons ago - geologists reckon
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03:24Evidence of a huge impact crater
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undefined:undefinedthat during the 1.8 billion years
03:43that have passed,
03:44the crater was obliterated
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04:01and in particular how
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04:23In 1883, two Victorian geologists -
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04:55something like almost
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05:10of the black rock.What is the
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05:30And when that happens you have a
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undefined:undefinedthe older rock, did they, to form
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05:54where rocks were squeezed like
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06:12This collision zone extends out to
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undefined:undefinedthe same continent.
06:25Peach and Horne's pioneering work
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06:38unimaginable periods of time.
06:41They were the first to come here and
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06:52The fundamental complex?
06:54The fundamental complex. And of
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07:11of rugged mountains
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undefined:undefinedits salmon and trout.
07:27I have a very early memory of seeing
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07:43I was absolutely amazed -
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undefined:undefinedGeorge Leligdowicz.
07:59He has promised to help me
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08:14thing is we haven't got any midges.
08:16That is a very important
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08:31Over 1,000.Really?
08:33Yes. Just to give you an example,
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08:47the Woolly Bugger.
08:49These don't look like
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09:123,000 years ago.
09:14And according to legend a medieval
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09:35to lure salmon from the
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undefined:undefinedThey work very well, actually.
09:53Ironically, it is Loch Shin's real
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10:16Good grief.Yeah.
10:18We were literally getting a fish
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10:44OK?
10:46OK, very little effort.
10:47So for all these years, I have
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11:07catch in this weather is a cold.
11:14Leaving the ever-hopeful George
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11:39cross the kyle by boat -
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12:00replaced by this impressive
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12:29And up here is the old swing bridge
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12:57Leaving the old wreck, I head over
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13:15World War II for a daring and deadly
13:18raid on the German
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13:34the original X-Men of their day -
13:37and their mission was to infiltrate
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14:02The bravery of the men who undertook
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14:24a complex mountain called Quinag,
14:26which in Gaelic apparently
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undefined:undefinedLoch Assynt.
14:43As if the view wasn't lovely enough,
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15:04this castle was built by Clan
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15:20The evil one wanted her
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15:39Instead it is said that she plunged
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15:58legend says it is because
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16:16but he got his revenge by hurling
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16:36there are lots of them,
16:38including one that's partially
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16:56Assynt's vast underground system of
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17:14never seen before.
17:16The first bit is a bit low but
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17:39After two hours of wriggling
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18:02It's cathedral-like.
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18:22That's an amazing sight.
18:24A lake in front of us, a black lake.
18:26And how deep is that lake?
18:27It's about eight metres deep and
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18:47to goodness knows what end
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undefined:undefinedHuman beings are curious.
19:10What is round the next corner?
19:12BOTH: It could be this.
19:13Indeed. Some of the best caves in
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19:32eyes on this. And it's a bit cheaper
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undefined:undefinedthe human imagination is such...
19:49In fact, I think being a slightly
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20:06Not if she is sitting
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20:25from the cave and flows
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20:42and is an important fishing port.
20:45Fish landed here makes its way
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21:05Chestnut and mushroom.
21:07Vegetable curry.
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21:17How many pies would you sell
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undefined:undefinedThank you very much.
21:35Enjoy your pie.Cheers now.
21:43Leaving Lochinver, I am hiking
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22:03and it's easy to lose your bearings.
22:06Fatigue and exposure to the elements
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22:25upon to come to the rescue.
22:28On a hillside, Assynt Mountain
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22:49most challenging conditions.
22:54My role as a volunteer casualty
22:56begins with a very
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undefined:undefinedlike that?No pain in my chest yet.
23:23OK.I'm just worried
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23:37So this is the team.These are
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23:53Molly and her canine chum Assynt
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24:15to find casualties,
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24:41Absolutely. And it is driven
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25:00by the playful Molly,
25:02I wait for the clouds to lift
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25:26The lung-bustingly steep path
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25:53spelt with a "G".
25:55And it was formed deep within
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26:16about 1,000 million years ago
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26:35glaciers, except in a few places
26:37where it was tough enough
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27:03this extraordinary landscape,
27:05and how insignificant and puny
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27:25a giant dry-stane dyke on the
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27:44popular again, I wonder who
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28:10of Assynt in a grand sweep that
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28:35up the Trossachs from lake to loch.