So my parents have come out to Scotland and we've been taking them all sorts of places. I have always wanted to go to Inverness, so we planned out a few places to go to and brought ourselves a picnic. All of us woke up bright and early at 4:30 AM so we could fit everything we wanted to do into our schedule.
We arrived at Clava Cairns for the sunrise and walked among the cairns and standing stones in the beautiful little wooded area just off a country road close to Inverness. It was quite secluded, we had the area to ourselves for awhile and saw nobody but a man walking his dog as we were leaving. Many of the stones aligned with the rising sun like the one in the picture above and below.
Totally worth going in the morning, I was so excited! However, the stones are aligned to the setting sun as well. The cairns especially are lit up on the inside when the sun sets during the winter solstice.
This stone was my favorite..... or "stones" as it seems like it's two stones put together. We could get some really interesting pictures and I think that Clava Cairns deserves a blog of it's own and I'll blog about the rest of the adventure later.
You can see the large burial cairn in the background, there are three of them, two you can walk into because they have openings. The cairn in the middle doesn't have an entrance even though it has an open space in the middle (kind of like a doughnut)
Here's the first one showing the entrance.
This one was incorporated into the fence and another stone from this same circle is on the other side of the road.
How many times do you get the chance to take a picture of your own shadow this clear? I thought it was pretty darn cool.
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