Most definitelythe flood plain, nice one Carol, end of a bird marsh and the beginning of stream fields, just shows how fast it will flow, made me wonder if the river protection below Gaick is actually a warning as to impending floods by the cottage as the road is washed out on a photograph farther along. The Feshie for example has a reputation for flood in past years if I remember correctly. One thing to have sheep and cattle cottages there totally another to use it as recreation and modern accommodation unless prepared to wade, but I expect the vegetation and land use has something to do with it as that will have altered since the days it was farmed. Good photograph. Lovely area to be in with the butter squash soup and the cafe at first floor level just along the road and excellent to reach Fort William, or of course Dornoch and or Braemar via Ballater and back down the Shee and around Blair again. Just love it. Flow glorious flow and Mountains of streams. Except when there is a drought. Mike Stagg MD Stagg BScWales Hydrology soils Geology 1969 UCW fluid plane interface p_ compression tectonic Structure Design