VOLUNTEERS from the RNLI have rescued a 48-year-old man who injured his ankle when he fell on to rocks near a Highland castle.
The lifeboat team from Kyle of Lochalsh were called out on Saturday evening to help a Scottish Ambulance Service crew transport the man from the shoreline of Eilean Donan Castle in Dornie.
He had fallen on rocks and was suffering a suspected broken ankle.
Lifeboat crew members managed to move the man from the castle island to the slipway at Dornie Community Hall, from where he was carried to the waiting ambulance.
One of the RNLI crew members said: “Due to the location of the casualty it was decided the safest way to get him to the ambulance was for us to transport him.
“However it was a tricky spot to get the lifeboat into and out of, and was made all the trickier by the rapidly receding tide.”
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