A Wild Vista

Those Google folk really are getting about a bit these days. Not content with going off-piste in selected areas and giving places like Corfe Castle the Street View treatment, it seems that recent excursions from Inverness have taken the Google cameras all the way out along the single-track road to the north of Loch Quoich.

Heading out towards Knoydart, near the eastern dam on Loch Quoich.

Good on ‘em. Though an impressive application, using Street View to virtually browse the High Streets of “Anytown, UK” was always going to pale pretty quickly. About as interesting as today’s news that Cheryl Cole has separated from some footballer or other. Cheryl who? (A story which, incidentally, is currently occupying third position in the BBC News website headlines — five places above the news of a car bomb in Newry, NI. WTF?)

Anyway — have you not been able to get up into the Highlands for a bit? No probs. Here’s an embedded Street View window. Just click once in the window below, then keep hitting the “up arrow” key for a grand tour of one of the finest stretches of road in the UK. You might also want to click that icon top-right for some full-screen goodness.

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So, what next for the Street View team. Baggers’ paths?

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