Scotland has loads of Hydro Elecric schemes and Loch Rannoch has it's share. Decided one day to bike up the forestry roads and visit one of the smaller water catchments. At the top of the track there was a boggy path which went on towards an aqueduct. I didn't take any pictures of the mud.
Eventually I found the dam that diverted water into the aquaduct.
Just a few metres along the way was one of last year's antlers hanging onto the mud. On the downhill side the soft muddy bank was reinforced by wooden stakes.
At the end of my small aqueduct the water joined some much bigger sources of water which arrived through tunnels [ Hydro info. ] The tunnelers in the main were made up from British, Polish, Czechs, German and Italian former prisoners of war, and other Europeans. Their nickname - "The Tunnel Tigers".
The aquaduct contours into the building from the right hand side of the picture - as I did on a mountain bike.
The end result is the contribution to the 'National Grid'. The water in the background went off to the next dam and turbines, to generate more electricity.
