These photographs were shot in the middle of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, off the West Coast of Scotland.
However, everything within the boundary of the circular stone wall is sovereign territory of the State of New South Wales, Australia. Amid the lofty granite ridges of Mull (an extension of the Highlands) and all the local vegetation, in the distance on a large print there is even a grove of eucalypts to reinforce the sense of tenure.
Why?
Because this is the personal mausoleum of Governor Lachlan Macquarie and his wife of harbourside chair fame. It was Macquarie's vision of what the penal colony of New South Wales had the potential to become that largely set the wheels in motion that Australia might become what it is today.
Here are a couple of other Macquarie pics from the site of his Government House at Parramatta. His Bath House:
Cheers,