Exploring Scotland's Underwater Ruins

Many of the lochs we see while travelling through the Scottish Highlands are man made, created as part of vast hydro electric schemes in the 1950s and 60s. As the water level drops in many of these reservoirs over the summer, they reveal facinating secrets...
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Archelogy in the Upper Glendevon Reservoir:
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Photo of the Corrielair Lodge pior to flooding:
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Wonderful article on the drowning on Capel Celyn:
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00:00 - Introduction & History of Scottish Hydroelectricity
02:00 - The Old Sunken Roads & Bridges of Loch Claunie
04:24 - The Submerged 'Laundry House' of Loch Claunie
06:34 - The Empty Glendevon reservoirs
07:42 - The Sunken Farmhouse
09:26 - Exploring the Farmhouse
18:45 - Outro & Waffling on a bit
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[@PixiLord123]

Your calves are exceptional.

[@evoblade2000]

Homeboy does not skip leg day.

[@relaxingnature2617]

They give away free pants to the poor at some churchs

[@MattyNut]

he's a true highlander

[@animalbeats]

I thought the same

[@1337fraggzb00N]

It's because he is not a Welshman.

[@italialyanoboi]

When I was younger my Father and my Grandfather took be to see some of the dams in the Scotish borders. I remember them telling me that when the dams were built the farms were flooded and are still under the water. When I went back to school I drew what I thought it looked like and I drew a house under water with fish swimming around it. I was amazed that what I pictured was not far from reality. Fantastic video, I really love all your videos. Looking forward to the next one.

[@whoarewe7515]

Did you get your inspiration from a gold fish bowl?

[@ChristmasCrustacean1]

to me its crazy how fast the grass re-establishes itself, the hills ache to be meadows.

[@CalumRaasay]

"the hills ache to be meadows" jesus what a great line!

[@ozma639]

The double walls gives a dead air space between, which acts as insulation from heat and cold. Cleverly built.

[@MG-bs5mr]

Don't all homes have cavity walls?

[@MG-bs5mr]

@MR Blaze Pukka how long have cavities been in use though because I was raised in a house that is now 100 years old and that had cavity walls.

[@sethhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Damn, you really captured some beautiful shots in this, Calum. The whole thing was fascinating to watch. Thank you for posting!!

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you Seth! Managed to get some great weather this week to film it all!

[@merekat2k12]

@@CalumRaasay awesome veiws caught with your camera ❤️

[@itallia666]

Just a shout out to a fellow Horn My surname is Horn too, no "e" at the end though, like you. I dont know if your in Scotland or the North or from elsewhere in the world. My fathers people named Horn origionally came from northern Norway over to Scotland in the mid 1700s & settled in Inverness & across the north Inlet to Dornoch There are branches of our family still there. My dads great grandfather came down to Newcastle Upon Tyne to work in the great industry of Shipbuilding that was once so prevalent in this area of the Northumbrian coast all the way up to Inverness, & downover to the great shipyards on the River Wear in Sunderland Anyway hope this finds you fit & well & may blessings make your day good. 🇬🇧👧

[@souta95]

I can really see why my grandpa though Scotland was the most beautiful place on earth. He was there during WWII while in the US Navy and he said he always wished he could return and bring my grandma with him. Sadly, they never made the trip.

[@TheFiown]

Someone should invent an underwater drone to film things like this. Here in France there are many drowned buildings and one town in the south in particular was drowned complete, they left it all and they even used the flooding of it in a movie, it was quite spectacular. The first place in France I visited on holiday was on the edge of a flooded valley and in summer the church with it's bells protruded from the water along with other buildings.

[@irisgreene4175]

Research Tartaria and the mudflood

[@randomsandwichian]

We have the tech, we just need the people now!

[@whoarewe7515]

They had the tech when they built the calypso g.

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

remote submarine?... the things that definetly already exist?

[@TheFiown]

Spot on ! Yikes ! @@toasterhavingabath6980

[@tinamajors9786]

Here in America the vast majority of our wind farms have been a failure. They may be the future for Great Britain but they’re not working out that well here in the United States. The pictures you took and the videos are absolutely astounding and beautiful.

[@dpt6849]

Most countries have high costs dus to maintenance. It seems to be a scam

[@tango6nf477]

Hello Calum I just wanted to say how pleasant it is to see a young man who has such intelligence, and passion for social history as you obviously have. Your narration is not waffle by and means and I listened to every word, the whole presentation was fascinating. I have just subscribed, best wishes and I will now begin to watch all your material now I have found it. Thank you.

[@CalumRaasay]

I’m so sorry I missed this comment! Thank you so much, really appreciate that.

[@DownTheDrainOutoorssince2013]

Fascinating video, I love the way you edited in the photos you took! Love this and all your other content, keep it up!

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you Kai! I was so happy to finally inlude some photography in my videos! Will definatley be doing more of that in the future!

[@ScumfuckMcDoucheface]

Yeah man, i couldn't agree more. =)

[@AutistCat]

I'm reading up on Raasay, it sounds really cool. I'm from Iceland and it gives me somewhat familiar vibes, but of course there's the distinct difference that the British isles have been inhabited for tens of thousands of years, quite unlike Iceland.

[@AJNpa80]

I would trade a kidney for Icelandic citizenship. I haven't stopped dreaming about your country since I drove the ring road aimlessly for 15 days, checking out spur roads, towns, trails booking the closest guest house at sundown each day. We skipped the triangle and the lagoon. The architecture and infrastructure so orderly, clean, ergonomic. The thing that I didn't expect was the vocal tradition. Walked into a bar and a bunch of people were singing. The resonance of the voices together in the room, at parts it reached a fever pitch and I could feel the sound pressure on my chest cavity. It wasn't so loud that it hurt my ears. It was one of the most memorable and intense moments ever. I knew about the storytelling and writing, I knew people sang, I just didn't expect that. Being Irish I've been in many public house rooms where people sang to pass the time. I'm not an art nerd or anything, it just blew my mind. I expected most of the other things though, everything exceeded my expectations. The intensity of the landscape, the micro climates, everything changes over a couple hundred k. I've never felt so drawn to a place. Since I first breathed the air I haven't stopped thinking about the place. It was an irregularly warm late February into March that we were there. The weather swung several times per day by location. It was like going from Oz to the Arctic to the fjords and back to the bright green land of Oz. Caught a snowfall, some ice, and there was a large snowfall the day we left. If only I could find a way, then again I suppose everyone would want to stay if it wasn't so difficult.

[@Karl_Kampfwagen]

Iceland is better inhabited than Britain. Those Roman ass-hats didn't bring along their best engineers, which is PAINFULLY OBVIOUS seeing the last 1400+ years of "British Engineering." Germans won. They even took the British Isles. Nobody wants to admit it, but the Windsor family/Queen Victoria 3's family are literally German folks, pretending to be British, because WHY THE F*** NOT?! PROVE ME WRONG

[@keighlancoe5933]

One thing that strikes me about Scotland is how barren it actually is. Once upon a time it was teeming with forests and wildlife, it even had the most extensive temperate rainforest in Europe going all the way down the west coast of Scotland into Cumbria in England. Scotland should actually look like Norway a little bit, covered in pine forests, but there's nothing but bare hills and rocks across bare moors and meadows. The industrial revolution seriously scarred these islands and we've never really allowed our landscape to recover from it. England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland; they're all still beautiful, but they used to be so much wilder, each having a genuine wilderness we've since long lost.

[@stemartin6671]

Agriculture also stripped vast amounts of forest from the UK.

[@demonhighwayman9403]

The highland clearances had a lot to do with it.

[@joelthomson8697]

The British Isles should be one big forest. Thank you very much, industrial revolution. It's only 'green and pleasant' because it rains. Could very easily become brown and barren if the global temperature increases at the rate it's on track to... :/

[@roddymcniven8734]

@@demonhighwayman9403WHAT?? please elaborate

[@demonhighwayman9403]

@@roddymcniven8734 All the crofters were thrown off their land to make way to make way for large amounts of livestock, to do this land also had to be cleared of tree's etc.

[@Iwritewithdoody5]

I lived in California's gold country at the peak of our drought and watched as old mining facilities and ghost towns slowly reemerged from our reservoirs, did some exploring myself but didn't care to document it at all this was around the same time that the reservoir at Mt Shasta drained and a lost hiker was finally found pinned beneath a tree after some thirty odd years

[@violentcat345]

I really enjoyed the photography you popped in! There is something fascinating about underwater ruins especially when they resurface, there is a certain mystery and draw to these places where time works differently on structures and it feels like peeling back the curtains to get a glimpse of times past, preserved as if they had only recently been submerged. Also maybe this appeals because I've been reading a book about bog bodies and the author talks about how the preservation that occurs in bogs, fens and mires changes how we perceive these sometimes very well preserved bodies in comparison to how people feel regarding skeletonized remains.

[@TheFiown]

Back in the 70's they built four lane highways to motor all the way up Scotland to the top, way before it was actually needed and it's a joy to drive very early in the morning in winter on these great roads covered in snow with the faery landscape following us.

[@sp-overton7516]

What four lane highways are these? I live near John O'Groats (top of Scottish mainland) and I can say for certain that there is no four lane highway that comes all the way up since the 70's. Dualing the A9 is still on going, large sections between Perth and Inverness weren't done until the 90's, and the section north of Helmsdale wasn't done until 2005/2006. I remember single track roads mixed with normal roads when I was young, and a couple of those larger bridges weren't built either.

[@jamebrooke894]

As a young Marine in the 1970s we were sent to Scotland and trained there. It is an amazingly hauntingly beautiful landscape. I devour EVERY movie about and filmed in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿!!

[@isctony]

Great to see the early use of cavity wall, a design that has become common place but was invented in this parts to protect the internal skin of brickwork from the driving rain

[@althejazzman]

I came for the tiny campervan. I stayed for the social history and photography. Your video doesn't appear anti-renewables at all. I too am fascinated but can't help feeling sad for someone's loss especially as it's mostly forgotten about now.

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you Alex! Much appreciated. More van content on the way!

[@colinmacdonald5732]

I was brought up near Loch Cluanie and it was a fairly common occurrence for the loch to be low, especially in the Summer, the chimneys were a good signal that it was particularly dry. I knew they belonged to the lodge but wasn't aware that it actually the wash house. As a side note, these hydro schemes didn't just drown land, in Loch Ness they extended the shoreline when tunnel waste was dumped in the Loch during the 1950's. Now covered in birch woodland you would never think it was under water 70 years ago, and gives you an idea of how quickly forest can establish itself in Scotland.

[@CalumRaasay]

Yeah I've always been unlucky, I've driven Cluaine hundreds of times but I never got the chance to stop much to look for the old ruins!

[@GGtth-yl3uu]

I worked on the dam reconstruction back in the early 90s in upper glendevon recognised it straight away. The old ruins would pop up from time to time.

[@cjbrewer7]

I'm impressed no sunken boats , anchors, cars or barrels with bodies in them. Great job taken care of you water ways.

[@keith800]

Lovely video , great to see these buildings saved for all time along with the farm house preserved for evermore .

[@callaperdrix]

The wooden wedge at 12:40 is a "dook". used before screws and rawlplugs for creating fixings. Cut with an axe in a shape to create a cambing action when hammered in. The joiner also needed a dooking chisel to remove the mortar to create a gap for the dook. Your skirtings and stuff were nailed to the dook.

[@CalumRaasay]

Great spot!

[@mcapo1473]

just about the best narrator job I've ever listened to. Also, that van is awesome!

[@DubsnSubsSessions]

The world becomes a better place when people make things like this. Thankyou.

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you so much!

[@cydile]

This is incredibly fascinating and something I never even thought of before. Thank you for documenting and bringing us along on this adventure. It reminds me of the times I explored old ruins in the forest as a kid. Those were of course never submerged like these were, but I can relate to that curiosity and also pondering about who lived there before and what it was like. What's the story embedded in those walls? What have they seen?

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you Maia! I'd love to more videos like this exploring parts of Scotland, it's a real passion of mine! But you're exactly right, I'm at my happiest in woods or hills or anywhere exploring ruins and trying to discover a bit more of the history of them!

[@dharmaqueen]

@@CalumRaasay I would love to see more of this type of video, drone shots are great but handheld could do with some image stabalization cause it makes my eyes hurt, showing my age. Keep up the good work.

[@merekat2k12]

Awww, thank you so much for your valuable videos, I only came across this video tonight. I'm hoping that you still do your Videos. Much appreciated much love from the UK xxx

[@shawningeberg1536]

Thank you for sharing both this excellent video and your still photos as well.

[@cdd4248]

Mudlarking in Scottland! Beautiful Bl&Wh Photos...really lovely and so special

[@maireadrochford3579]

Thanks so much for this video. It was so interesting and your photos were beautiful. I'll certainly watch any other videos you have done. It's amazing how all these years later the original views have somewhat surfaced. Great van by the way!

[@lucille4203]

So glad this came up on KZbin. I really enjoyed all the pictures!! Thank you so much!!

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you Lucille! Was really glad to be able to share them

[@gafrers]

Fascinating and interesting as your other videos. Thanks Calum

[@gwendolynfish2102]

Fascinated and gorgeous photos! Thank you!

[@dreamseer7]

Oh how my fingers itch to touch those stones as you explore this beautiful place. Your vid does for me, what I might never be able to do, and I thank you for that. I hope someday to go to the Isle of Skye. It's on my bucket list. Thanks again. Melanie

[@frenchys_prospecting]

“Droughts and dryness” is not something I would ever have thought about when mentioning Scotland. Especially as an Australian

[@lmvath211]

Great photography. Absolutely made the episode seeing your artfully composed perspective.

[@chrisbgifford7387]

I really enjoyed your still photos. Amazing look at time and progress.

[@CalumRaasay]

Thanks so much!

[@norfolknomad]

Just found this channel and really enjoyed this video. I'm an englishman with a deep love of scotland. My great Grandfather was Scottish, so somewhere down the line I'm a bit Scottish i like to think. i usually come to Scotland several times a year but since the pandemic struck i haven't been at all. I'm looking forward to coming again this year all being well. Thanks for sharing your travels and you have a new subscriber.

[@calummcnab3222]

Great stuff Calum, Love your videos.

[@dannork1240]

The one place outside the USA I’ve gotten to visit was Scotland. It’s such an amazingly beautiful place! Thank you for posting this video, it was very cool to see this!

[@stevedavesteve4224]

This was great. Awesome photo's & drone footage!

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you!

[@4623620]

Nice that you also showed us the photographs you took, especially the black & white ones are beautiful. 👌😀👍 ❗

[@mattsutherland120]

Great video mate, will be watching more! Interesting fact you may like to know I that here in north east Victoria Australia, they moved the entire town of Tallangatta in the 50’s to escape the rising waters of an extended Lake Hume. The streets, train station and foundations of the houses are visible most summers.

[@joosepgeorg]

Just amazing... those bridges, and especially the fence line still standing... And the windfarm ironically attacking the locals again...

[@socialus5689]

Really fascinating watch. Thanks for putting effort into this :)

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you so much!

[@Qossuth]

Calum, this was really wonderful. The shots at 7:50 are simply stunning, otherworldly. Thanks!

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you! Much appreciated

[@redshift4416]

Man your content is amazing, keep up the great work

[@CalumRaasay]

😀Thank you! Really appreciate that

[@darrenmichie4939]

Hi there I have an actual photo on my phone of the original house ,in the photo they had a yard for chickens geese ,etc at the main door ,my father's friend as a young man used to walk from Tillicoultry to. Blackford in the summer (11mile walk)and Sheppard's wife used to serve tea coffee cakes for passing walkers at the window facing the water,I also knew about ancient archeological sites too here there are numerous sites in the Ochil hills ,just down the road in I think Dunning area of the ochils they found a ball made of stone it's called the sherrifmuir ball perfectly round stone ball with inscriptions on it it was made 4000years ago ,great video.

[@drawingboard82]

Thanks Callum, that's excellent! I must nip up and take a look myself.

[@anno-fw7xn]

Great video and i would love more of this style!

[@M.Godfrey]

Hey man incredible work again! So informative!! Absolutely love your stuff dude

[@CalumRaasay]

Thanks Mike! Really appreciated!

[@philiptownsend4026]

Fantastic video. I was riveted. In the past I travelled extensively in the highland and I always read up and dug into the history of the places I visited. Your videos are on a whole new dimension though.. Thanks for your work.

[@richardthompson9836]

I remember visiting that spot in Wales when I was a boy in 1962. I was visiting from America. My grandmother in Worcester and I took a Midland Red coach tour to Wales and I remember the driver saying that you could see the village church steeple sticking out of the water when the level was low. I've always wondered about that and if true, did they relocate any bodies and tomb stones to higher ground before flooding the place. Fascinating video. Thanks for bringing back a fond childhood memory.

[@peskier-yt]

2 uploads in 3 weeks! 2021 is turning out alright after all!

[@CalumRaasay]

haha! Both this, the Jimny and the Campervan video were all 'weekend videos' that didn't require much research, just lots of filming. Hopefully I'll get a few other videos out soon too!

[@peskier-yt]

@@CalumRaasay These weekend videos mean a lot to me in my small work-from-home office! So good to see what else this island can offer when I can finally take my family on a good trip around.

[@vapofusion]

Awesome stuff 👍 Gonna have to visit this place, just found your channel from your latest vid. Content is very interesting and well explained.

[@bathroomjon1]

Great video with very nice footage, especially the drone footage. thanks 😊

[@AnonNomad]

Thanks for sharing your travels with us.

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you for watching - and commenting!

[@soozikins]

Very interesting! It looks like the windows of the house were modernised when the extension went on, the main part of the house looks much older. Thanks for sharing this :)

[@The_Reality_Filter]

Fascinating stuff and some excellent photography.

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you so much!

[@doluggs]

Fascinating stuff you do. Thank you.

[@Randomrog416]

Some really great shots captured!

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you!

[@jonpopelka]

It’s been a pleasure discovering your channel, m8! You and I clearly have very similar interests. Thanks for the excellent content…it’s well-produced and fascinating! Liked and subscribed for sure

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you! Much appreciated

[@charlestownsley1623]

I admire your photographs...Hope you can include more

[@trishplanck9776]

I love the photos you took!

[@TheDiverat]

Great Vlog Calum loved the drone footage and the stills. Reservoirs hide some amazing finds when the drop. We have one on Dartmoor with some prehistoric monuments i have seen a clapper bridge and stone circles that were lost.. You need a buy me a coffee link as well as Patreon.

[@CalumRaasay]

I know, I need to get better with Patreon and the like! Hopefully for 2022. Thanks for the support 🙏

[@chuffnnuggz]

classic Scottish architecture is so charming, I love your culture, one of the few places I want to visit

[@kubob2289]

Thank you very much! A few years ago I worked in Gleneagles Hotel and I lived in the staff accommodation there. I walked to Glendevon reservoirs, but I would never say what could be hidden under water.

[@helenhunter4540]

Great, glad you're doing these.

[@questioneverything8876]

Appreciate the 3 layered view of historic change .Captivating experience.

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you!

[@CybershamanX]

(20:21 Yeah, you can clearly see it in the lower right corner. I'm fascinated by early proto castles and the old motte-and-baily design is a particular favorite of mine. How awesome to see the remains of one. 🙂 To be clear, the motte was the hill the castle part was on and the courtyard was the bailey.

[@CalumRaasay]

Yeah have a wee read of that report, very interesting stuff!

[@susanharris5926]

I'm "incredibly glad" you came to visit. Really interesting video showing what I assume will remain the landscape here (plus vegetation in the future) and demonstrating how people are pushed and shunted around for the sake of energy production. I sympathize with the folks that had to move from such an idyllic location.

[@SAM-zt2uy]

Was lucky to do a similar walk a few years ago in Derbyshire when they lowered the water in Ladybower Reservoir and the remains of Derwent Hall were visible.

[@veronicabalfourpaul2288]

I hope it starts to fill up soon. Interesting. Thanks.

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Amazing, thanks for sharing.

[@hawkedriot178]

Thanks for bringing up Dryweryn, I was wondering if Scotland got to keep the energy produced or if it was also situation like that. Absolutely beautiful footage and photos! almost like an aurora in some places.

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you! I’d actually scripted and recorded a whole piece about Capel Celyn and Llanwddyn for this but it didn’t really fit. Maybe deserves its own video. Great old documentary called “Celts: the final conflict” that discusses it too.

[@groeacht8525]

The electricity generated did indeed stay in Scotland, often meaning even in remote areas homes had electricity decades before running water made it to the area, so they could boil a kettle but the water would still need to be filled from a well and carried miles.

[@hawkedriot178]

@@CalumRaasay ooh I'd love to see that. My friend and I spent a lot of time driving around lake vyrnwy in our 20s, and as beautiful they managed to make a dam, I always wondered what the landscape would be without it. Manchester is teeming with reservoirs, wonder why Liverpool figured Wales was easier?

[@benmcreynolds8581]

Amazing. I love stuff like this. Not the dryness. I'm from Oregon born '89 and I am obsessed with rain and temperate rainforest ecosystems I've grown up living in and it's crazy seeing how dry it's been. But I sure love getting to explore lesser known and abandoned locations. On a end note: I believe science will prevail and we will be enjoying complaining about the rain and storms in no time lol

[@TheFiown]

That bridge is testament to the skill of workers back in the day.

[@rachelbassett4942]

Hi just came across you... Brilliant keep doing what you are doing x

[@paulhaynes8045]

Fascinating stuff. I loved the colours - and the juxtaposition of the modern day wind turbines, ever present in the edge of most of the shots. One minor moan though - I found the rapid movement of the camera a bit difficult to watch. Not only did the picture blur a bit, but I actually started to feel a bit dizzy! Back in the dry, hot summer of 76 we visited Devon and Cornwall in the middle of probably the worst drought of the century (?), and I have a photo of me standing on a bridge that hadn't been seen since the reservoir was originally flooded. I can't remember which reservoir it was though! Somewhere on Dartmoor or Exmoor, probably. The thing that struck me then (and again today watching your video) is how well arches survive. All that stuff we were taught in physics about the compression strength of arches was right!

[@upthehoe]

A strange recommendation but a welcome one, really interesting stuff

[@bigbasil1908]

It might be something to check out next time you're up in Rainland

[@CalumRaasay]

Thank you! Enjoy your work 👍🏻

[@JohnSuave]

The drone shots of the chimney stacks were sick

[@THEmickTHEgun]

Wow, I really wish I could do something similar to you. Travelling around in a van with my computer and gear in the back and just enjoy the occasional weekend just exploring the past.

[@thibz84]

Beautiful Landscape, Amazing, Just want to travel To Scotland Now 🙂

[@VinDieselS70]

Amazing video and how to see how things looked in the past. I live in Dalry in North Ayrshire and on the way to Largs, and one of the reservoirs, Muirhead reservoir was quite dry as well, you have always been able to see the old road dipping in to the water, but in 2021, to could follow the road in and out the reservoir and found the old river and the wee bridge built in the mid 1800s and the old tarmac, part of the old narrow gauge railway tracks, some concrete, slabs and an old narrow gauge frame with its wheels. Now, the whole thing is covered up again and photos to prove it. Thank you for your video.

[@vannjunkin8041]

You took pictures?

[@VinDieselS70]

@@vannjunkin8041 I did indeed, I live like 10 mins from the reservoirs and was there a couple of times during last summer as during my 20 years in Scotland I've never seen the reservoirs that empty before.

[@vannjunkin8041]

@@VinDieselS70 I bet those turned out terrific, like to see those. Ayrshire I think is an ancestral home for my surname.

[@CalumRaasay]

Oh amazing! You'll need to send me those photos so I can see!

[@VinDieselS70]

@@CalumRaasay oh definitely! where do you want me to send them to?

[@johnrogers2826]

A fascinating, beautiful place. Thanks.

[@matthewm2528]

Thanks for taking us on that journey

[@CalumRaasay]

My pleasure! Thank you for watching!

[@imajeenyus42]

Absolutely brilliant video, especially about Loch Cluanie! I'm up and down to Skye a few times a year, and always mean to stop there and have a good explore. I can never quite remember where the various bridges and bits are. I wonder if anyone has dived at the chimney stacks, it would be interesting to see what's still left below. There's Loch Loyne as well, where the old road from Tomdoun went over to Cluanie - sometimes the two bridges there get exposed as well, but it's a wee bit of a hike up.

[@juanitahardy8583]

Wow I used to live in Scotland in the 90s and all this is new to me. Thankyou for enlightening me to more history of a country I love and of my ancestors.

[@LadyLuck13]

Not sure how you popped up on my recommendations but I'm glad you did. That was really interesting. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 it just shows what great builders they were. Gosh my house is less than 20 years old and is falling apart already with just a bit of wind and rain...lol

[@omnivincitveritas]

Because we staple sticks together. These people are on another wave length when it comes to architecture, construction and design. We are in the stone age with fred and barney right now. How did we build these structures before with a rope, stick, wheel, horse and don't forget your bronze hammer!! It's really simple to understand just ask yourself. Why??? How? When you do really chew on that idea for awhile, you will come up with the realization it's all a LIE!!!!! Not some of it, not most of it, All of his story is a controlled narrative!

[@paulinemegson8519]

@@omnivincitveritas spoken like a true conspiracy nut.

[@omnivincitveritas]

@@paulinemegson8519 Strangely enough, one conspiracy after another gets proven true. Keep an open mind because your mind is going to be blown when you finally hear the truth about the controlled narrative of his story (history). Best wishes Pauline!

[@supertramp6011]

Another excellent doco Calum, great to see Cluanie ,dam exposed like this!👌

[@stephengirling7859]

Thanks for this. Really enjoyed it.

[@calumward1192]

That super carry is amazing!

[@CybershamanX]

That's such a cozy van you have there! You should do videos on any modifications or showcase some of the features. I'm sure there are many out there who would like to see them. 😎

[@CalumRaasay]

Abolutely going to make a van tour! Just a few bits to finish off first!

[@JrodsJourneys]

Nice photos !

[@anonymousgoat3669]

Thanks for the videos mate!

[@CalumRaasay]

Thanks for working!

[@CrusaderSports250]

The brick round the windows show where the windows were enlarged or even put in, likewise the brick extension on the side, my cottage has the same additions, put on in 1948 when water as put on inside the house (including hot water from a back boiler), prior to that there was a well round the back. You should come down to Galloway and visit our hydro scheme, built in the 1930s, a very impressive set of dams and generating houses that are reasonably easy to access, Tongland used to do tours round it but I think they have been suspended for the moment, we are well worth the visit. 😊.

[@wallykimball8829]

That most-of-the-time underwater arch was beautiful.

[@CalumRaasay]

Isn't it just? Absolutely gorgeous

[@terryhughes7349]

This was great! Good job!

[@TheTrainspotterFromTauranga]

These old ruins remind me of Cromwell, a small town in New Zealand. Around 1/3 of the town (including the railway station) was flooded in 1980 to allow for construction of the Clyde Dam. The railway from Wingatui was cut back to terminate in Clyde, and closed in 1990.

[@CalumRaasay]

Oh amazing, I'll have to look that up. Facinating history

[@BananaftRu]

Hi Calum, love your stuff. I want to note you that that mirror you have on the background is a fire hazard. It is parabolic on one side and can focus sunlight on nearby surfaces. Similar mirror once melted my printer. Please take care and never expose parabolic side to a parts of the sky where sun may pass.

[@CalumRaasay]

GREAT point! I’ll make a wee fabric cover to go over it!

[@CalumRaasay]

GREAT point! I’ll make a wee fabric cover to go over it!