A promising Spring morning at the Uath Lochans in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. While the sun was already touching the tops of the Cairngorm massif, morning mist was dancing over the mirror-like surface of the top left lochan (lochan meaning small lake in Scottish) of the Uath Lochans.
The Uath Lochans are a group of four small lakes, seen from above in the shape of a dog’s footprint. The lakes are located in Inshriach Forest. The Uath Lochans date from the Caledonian mountain-building event. The basement rocks of it were shaped by intense pressure and heat from the collision of tectonic plates. These ancient rocks were then sculpted by glaciation. A landscape of mountains, rolling hills, deep glens, and lakes emerged.
