Finding space to BREATHE
Photographer Andy McCandlish specialises in outdoor adventure shots
SITTING ON THE balcony of Loch Morlich Boathouse café beside my wife, Sarah, with the faint shriek of kids enjoying themselves on the sand below, I could feel the stress of the day drain through my shoes. I hugged a coffee and idly flicked a pastry crumb off the wooden bar we were leaning against.
A glance up revealed the glass-calm loch before us, and the glorious autumn colours of the Cairngorms in the near distance. Staff gathered the hire boats below, framed by the sunset over the water. Just glorious.
Peace and quiet
Such tranquillity was almost a shock, like an astronaut released into weightlessness following lift-off – coming as it did after the inevitably noisy hustle of starting a trip.
Motorways had turned to A-roads, then A-roads into a beautiful winding B-road as we rolled through Rothiemurchus Forest to Glenmore Campsite.
As soon as we had claimed a cosy pitch among the trees, we were out of there into the sunshine and, more importantly,
