A good starting place is the track that runs up from the Sanna road to the Kilchoan water works. This picture looks back down the course of the burn that provides most of our water, the Abhainn Chro Bheinn, to heights of Beinn na Seilg.
From the water works we turned north into the hills, climbing steadily until the views began to unfold below us. This picture, taken from the summit of a hill un-named on the OS map, looks almost due west across the Sanna road, then the first lochan, Lochan nan Ealachan, then Lochan na Crannaig, beyond which is the Portuairk road, Lochan an Aodainn, Loch Grigadale and, just about visible in the distance to the right, Ardnamurchan Point lighthouse.
From the next height - again un-named - we looked south across the various installations of the water works to Kilchoan Bay, with some of the houses of Ormsaigmore to the right, Kilchoan to the left, and Mull in the distance. Almost all the land in the fore- and middle ground is part of Kilchoan township's common grazings.
The more distant hills in this picture, from left to right, are Beinn Bhuidhe above Portuairk, Beinn na h-Imeilte, and the peaks from Beinn Dubh to Meall Sanna.
We circled round until we once more stood looking back down into the wide glen formed by the upper course of the Abhainn Chro Bheinn, a burn which wends it way downstream a series of textbook meanders. After sitting on a rock for some time we....
....dropped down to the burn and found another rock to sit on, this time overlooking a pool and a waterfall. There we drank some coffee and watched the water flow.
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