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I found this on the BBC site. It is described as "Views of the Argyll Hills while on a trip to Bute". Is it looking northish up the West Kyle towards Kames and Tighnabruaich? Or issit the Burnt Isles? I can't work it out... Any thoughts?
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EDIT: The original pic is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-29076883
 
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The caption was ... "Mary Turner, from Bridge of Weir, had views of the Argyll Hills while on a trip to the Isle of Bute. "

The background has to be somewhere west of Bute to be "Argyll Hills".

I think this is looking over St Ninians bay, on Bute, looking about west.
So the "...while on a trip to Bute", misleads a little, as it is "on Bute". not "en route".
The three buildings are on the little low peninsular which forms the west arm of the bay.
 
Thanks Gents. St Ninian's Bay and the promentary to the west of it was my other thought - there ain't any hooses on the Burnt Isles... I just couldn't get a perspective, on Google street view, of how a road could run almost north but still point at the promentary and Kames. I'll need to go to Bute!!!
 
Like you I still can't quite reconcile the road. Looking at a road map of Bute, and relating it to this picture isn't easy. Doesn't seem to quite fit.
I think it must be that straight stretch of A844 just north of Ardscalpsie, approaching the next farmhouse north from the hairpin bend. A way off in the background is Kames. So looking over Bute in foreground, St Ninians bay near ground, over the west Kyle, Kames and "Argyll Hills" is distance.
 
MM5AHO said:
Like you I still can't quite reconcile the road. Looking at a road map of Bute, and relating it to this picture isn't easy. Doesn't seem to quite fit.
I think it must be that straight stretch of A844 just north of Ardscalpsie, approaching the next farmhouse north from the hairpin bend. A way off in the background is Kames. So looking over Bute in foreground, St Ninians bay near ground, over the west Kyle, Kames and "Argyll Hills" is distance.
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Yup, I agree. The photographer was standing by Tormore Hill, and the first dip in the road is where it crosses the burn running down to Port Loddan. Beyond the next rise the road veers slightly to the left, so the building is Mecknoch Farm on the right. The wood on the left is on the map.

See http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=20...searchp=s.srf&dn=620&ax=205235&ay=657883&lm=0
 
Well damn me! I was driving along that road yesterday and saw that view, but not foreshortened by a long lens. Last year, I went to Straad and walked out to the two white buildings, one a house and the other a derelict barn. Spooky!
 
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Many of the places I sail it goes "in" and "out". And most of that is W Coast Scotland.
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On a semi-serious note, it really is a significant different between the west and south costs of Scotland, I think. Bute, Mull, Skye and Barra don't get much bigger or smaller as the tide rises and falls, whereas Galloway adds a hundred square miles or more at low tide.
 
The yacht anchored in St Ninian's Bay was flying an undefaced blue ensign - and using a Rocna.
It wasn't this one, though, which was aground. :D With a Bruce!
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