I’m fortunate that my work takes me all over Scotland. While sitting in a hotel room in Elgin I came up with the bright idea of documenting one of the prettiest and most scenic drives I get to go on.
It is jam packed with photo oportunities and places to fly, plenty cafes, hotels, B & Bs and caravan/camping. There are many diversions that can be taken, this is just the way I like to go.
A941 south from Elgin to Craigellachie and the first stop for Craigellachie Bridge.
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Continue south to Inveravon Church and Pictish Stones, the A941 morphs into the A95
I didn’t make a drone flight here as it was busy and not very much room. I’ll add some shots from my DSLR once I get them off the card.
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South again towards the Old Bridge of Avon, Ballindalloch
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Continue on the road where you will come to the roundabout at Speybridge, just South of Grantown-on-Spey
Here you will cross the River Spey and turn left (first exit). After passing signs for Dulnain you will see signs for a left turn into Nethybridge on Station Road
You have now arrived at Broomhill Station
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The sation itself isn’t much to look at, but if you’ve done your homework you’ll get to see a real live choo choo train
I found the easiest place to view the train is further along the road at the next destination.
I found this bridge by happy accident while going to look at and fly another subject, more on that one shortly. I had been trying to find a wooden bridge, spanning a river, carrying a
vehicle for The BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE. I was really struggling until I happened accross this. After a little research I found the reason for my struggles. This is supposedly the only
wooden bridge left in Scotland that was purposely designed for carying cars.
Broomhill Bridge
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Keep heading in the same direction and you’ll come to Nethybridge. Turn left onto the B970 and follow the road until you see signs for
Castle Roy
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Turning back from where you came, a few hundred yards down the road take a left and follow until at the next junction, again turn left and follow the road for some miles.
There are plenty of parking spots on this road if you want to stop to admire the scenery and get the drone back out. Keep travelling until you start climbing a hill.
At the top you have a sharp right hand back onto the Old Military Road
You will drive through some more nice scenery and continue the journey to
The Lecht Mine and Well of Lecht
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Continue up the hill on the climb to The Lecht Ski Centre
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Down the hill on the other side there are again plenty of photo opportunities before arriving at The Watchers
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And then Corgarff Castle
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You may or may not be asked to stop flying your drone here as it’s a Historic Environment Scotland site. I didn’t take a video today, only picures, so here’s one from a while back
Further down the road you will come to the pretty little Gairnshiel Bridge.
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Turning right just 150 yards after the bridge you’ll now be on the A93 which will take you to Braemar Castle, it’s not very pretty at the moment due to renovation.
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Not long to go now, fortunately, I hear you scream
Keep following the road onto Glenshee, again there are multiple opportunities for photography and drone flight all along this road
Until we arrive at Glenshee Ski Centre
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Further along the road the scenery opens up again
That was me done for the day, it’s the first time I have actually wanted to put the drone away since I bought it almost a year ago. I think I got through 9 batteries on the mini 2 and around 10Gb of video/stills, not including what I took on the DSLR. The trip took 9 hours in total but that included having to stop off a few times for work commitments and watering the roadside weeds. There is far more to discover on this route, in fact you could probably spend at least a week travelling it and find something new every day.
If you fancied it, you can continue the trip to Blairgowrie. From here you have many, many options. Perth, Dunkeld, Stirling, Scotland is your oyster
