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March 2003

Fieldtrip to

27.03.03
A loch-the loch
Loch Lamond

A mountainous landscape with its broad straths, narrow glens and slender lochs

has fired the imagination of writers, poets and artists for centuries.

Loch Lemond is the largest expanse of freshwater in Great Britain and one of the deepest.

Two worlds collide here.
The gentle Lowlands end abruptly at the Highland Boundary Fault

and give way to rugged terrain.

Earth forces have thrust the land skywards, giving birth to a chain of mountain which
stretched from America to Norway.

Time and ice have robbed them of their height and broken the chain,
but in return given them the richness and character of age.

Gabriele Fritzsche
2003