The Punch Bowl

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This is a close up of the top of the Linn of Quoich in the Cairngorms, Scotland. A Linn is narrow, steep sided groove that a watercourse has cut through a shelf of hard rock. The river Quoich flows down from it's source high on Beinn a Bhuird in quite a gentle way (unless it is in spate after heavy rain), until it reaches the Linn. Here all the water rushes through a deep slot in the rock that is only a couple of feet wide, before calming down again to join up with the River Dee a bit further downstream. I decided to go for the close up of the top of the Linn as I rather liked the dappled effect of quite strong sunlight breaking through the surrounding trees - sunlight being a bit of a novelty on this trip....

The river Quoich flows down from it's source high on Beinn a Bhuird in quite a gentle way (unless it is in spate after heavy rain), until it reaches the Devil's Punchbowl and the Linn of Quoich. This is the waterfall alongside the Devil's Punchbowl, which is a circular hole cut into the rock (behind me in this picture) by the rushing water when the river is in spate. Just downstream from here the water rushes through a deep slot in the rock that is only a couple of feet wide, the Linn of Quoich, before calming down again to join up with the River Dee a bit further downstream. I decided to go for the waterfall as I rather liked the dappled effect of quite strong sunlight breaking through the surrounding trees - sunlight being a bit of a novelty on this trip....