Also just a few minutes drive from Bearnock. All three glens Affric, Cannich and Strathfarrar drain eastwards into the River Beauly. They are heavily glaciated valleys cut into hard gneiss and moine schist rocks giving a landscape which is rugged and boggy with steep wooded valley sides and bare rocky hills.



Glen Cannich has a wonderful, managed, wild deer reserve towards the upper limits where you can drive past some truly beautiful sights of stags standing proud, displaying their mighty antlers against the mountainous skyline, and even down on the very road you drive along. Sometimes there are literally hundreds to see, particularly in the autumn and winter months. At the top of the glen is the reservoir and fantastically impressive dam wall. (Certainly a drive well worth taking).

Glen Strathfarrar is amongst some of the finest scenery in the Highlands. In the lower regions of the strath the river Farrar meanders through the remnants of the Caledonian Pine Forest, whilst on the upper reaches of the strath there are large numbers of the majestic red deer to be found, here the dominant use of the land is stalking and fishing. In these higher heather moorlands, Golden eagles are to be seen. The glen is a National Nature Reserve, and therefore managed due to a natural regeneration scheme, and only allows a certain number of cars, (who must collect a pass), into the private glen, per day. Open to vehicles from April to end of October. Again, well worth visiting, it is a wonderful place.