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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Ball" data-source="post: 3233101" data-attributes="member: 94954">When I was researching Scotland in 2011, AFAIR Glen Affric sounded like quite a good site and is (I think) a bit nearer Inverness, but Loch Maree sounded easier and that was where we went. It was surprisingly easy to get to from Inverness after doing Speyside (much easier than up the west side, where the mountains make you zigzag all over the place), though the best site was near the western end, just west of the car park near where the road to Gairloch heads away from the loch, where a footpath runs inland alongside a small burn. Got Azure and Northern Em there quite easily, though the Emerald only in flight (typical for Emeralds in my experience), but must have been Northern as that's the only one that occurs there (allegedly - no, seriously, could get enough on the face patterns in flight, though no decent photos despite trying to fall in the burn). One Azure landed on my mate <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />As you probably know, the Loch Garten sites as described are good for Northern Damsel and White-faced, the latter are on small pools a few metres south of the road further up near a road junction.</blockquote>