At the very end of May 2022, we completed another geological tour of Scotland. We took our group from Edinburgh, up to the Cairngorms, across to the North West Highlands, on to Skye and then out to Staffa, before heading back to Edinburgh via Glencoe! We saw a huge array of sites, many of which played pivotal roles in the history of geology – Siccar Point, Knochan Crag and Hutton’s Section. As well as that, we saw the world’s best mid-Jurassic dinosaur trackways and four different Palaeogene volcanoes, which formed during the splitting of the Atlantic Ocean.
Whilst the itinerary is broadly similar to our previous Scotland trips (which you can read about here: https://geoworldtraveldiaries.com/2021/07/08/scotland-2021/ and https://geoworldtraveldiaries.com/2019/07/23/scotland-2019/), there were a new stop added to the tour this time around – Hugh Miller’s Cottage in Cromarty. This is a museum dedicated to one of Scotland’s most famous palaeontologists, located in his former home.
We’re running the trip again in late June 2022 and then again in early June 2023. Please get in contact if you are interested in joining us on the trip in the future.
Here are a selection of photos from our trip to give you a flavour of the sites and sights that we saw.
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![People standing around the trunk of a large oak tree](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-14-e1654982796452.jpg)
![View of a lake and a mountain](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-15-e1654982777456.jpg)
![Group of people standing by a sign on a lake shore](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-17-e1654982761465.jpg)
![An information board next to a beach and the sea](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-19-e1654982750115.jpg)
![House with doorway](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-22-e1654982738898.jpg)
![Man pointing to rock](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-28-e1654982726149.jpg)
![Two people with a statue of two men talking with a lake in the background](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-31-e1654982714597.jpg)
![Group of people in front of a lake](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-33-e1654982702313.jpg)
![People standing in front of a road cutting in colourful rock](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-35-e1654982689166.jpg)
![Rock with sea in background](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-38-e1654982676498.jpg)
![Man pointing to an unconformity in rock](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-41-e1654982664877.jpg)
![Man talking to a group of people by a beach and some rocks](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-42-e1654982651367.jpg)
![People on a rocky beach](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-47-e1654982639818.jpg)
![River flowing in a deep gorge](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-51-e1654982625124.jpg)
![Beach with mountains in the background](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-52-e1654982612904.jpg)
![People on a boat with a mountain in the background](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-54-e1654982598627.jpg)
![A seal basking on rocks next to the sea](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-61-e1654982585526.jpg)
![A group of people standing on a rock with a lake and mountain in the background](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-72-e1654982572953.jpg)
![People standing in front of a hillside with landslip](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-76-e1654982560210.jpg)
![Woman on beach pointing to dinosaur trackway in rock](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-79-e1654982546499.jpg)
![A dinosaur footprint in rock](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-82-e1654982514283.jpg)
![Man talking to a group of people in a museum](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1mgwt-9-e1654982826934.jpg)
![Sea cliff](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-83-e1654982493633.jpg)
![A boat on the sea with land in the background](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-91-e1654982479110.jpg)
![Inside a cave with hexagonal cooling columns](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-109-e1654982467643.jpg)
![A boat in the entrance to a sea cave](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-110-e1654982452602.jpg)
![Columnar cooling structures in rock](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-116-e1654982440320.jpg)
![View of island with caves](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-117-e1654982427100.jpg)
![A puffin](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-127-e1654982415766.jpg)
![A view across the sea to land, with more sea and mountains in the background](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-131-e1654982402235.jpg)
![Landscape view](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-140-e1654982362176.jpg)
![Group of people on a bridge acoss a river in a mountainous valley](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-149-e1655050953537.jpg)
![A rock section](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-154-e1654982335766.jpg)
![Group of people with rock outcrop and city in the background](https://geoworldtravel.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/sco22t1rgwt-158-e1654982318245.jpg)