I have made it up to Tarbet, this is on one of Scotland’s most used tourist routes, the A82 which meanders alongside Loch Lomond heading northward from the Firth of Clyde. I am on my way to see a new overhead transmission line project that is under construction on the Kintyre Peninsula in Argyll and Bute in Scotland’s Southwestern Highlands.
From Tarbet I take the A83 which will take me up to the well-known ‘Rest and be thankful’ pullover spot on the A83, sitting between Ben an Lochain at 2990 feet and Ben Ime at 3314 feet. These peaks are in what is called the Arrochar Alps and lay in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
After a very scenic climb up to this road pass at 868 feet altitude I am now heading slowly westward down to Loch Fyne and the town of Inveraray. Near this location in Glen Shira is the SSEN substation that is the start of this new overhead line and the first phase of which was under construction from September 2019.
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