These are the locks leading to the Loch.
It was a walking trip around Inverness today, looking for geocaches. We found one that we had searched for with no success last year – it was a camouflaged cache, actually in plain sight.
Today’s picnic
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We drove to Glenurquhart Forest using the A833, rather than via Inverness, as the day was good enough to get the hood down on the MX-5 and it is a much more exciting drive.
Once there it was a great place to walk, have our lunch, brew some tea and we scored several caches as well.
We did drive back along Loch Ness.
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We got out walking today and so we did not waste the good weather we stayed local.
We decided to use geocaching to plan the route so the first stop was Tollie Red Kites – where we did see Red Kites and a weasel.
Tollie Red Kites
a grainy photo of the weasel
We also drove out to Knock Farril – a site of an ancient hill fort.
The view from Knock Farril
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The weather was so good that we got the hood down on the MX-5.
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Alex and I walked a circular route today, from Southrey using both The Viking Way and The Water Rail Way.
We stopped along the way to brew some fresh coffee, scored a geocache that I could not find last time I passed it and got a couple of good photos.
Public art at Southrey
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Sunday
Walking out form the campsite.
A murder of crows
Hill Fort and Settlement
Monday
Tuesday
After the snow I went into a snowless Edinburgh.
Wednesday
Lauder Common
Because of an afternoon conference call for a client, I only had time for a short morning walk.
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There was a convenient bench up in the hills for a tea break.
I had packed my titanium meths stove for this trip – my Alpkit gas stove o-ring seal has been giving me some problems. It was completely still, when I came to make some tea later in the evening, so I sat at the picnic table and brewed up.
Thursday
Lauder
And a “VR”.
I spent a showery afternoon, in the car, drinking tea and watching videos on my iPhone.
Friday – on the way to Lincoln!
Jedburgh Abbey
A68 South of the Border
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After yesterday’s weather, today is bright and cold, but a good day to get out and walk.
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I had to work this morning on a project for a client, so I went to a nearby hotel, with good coffee, sandwiches and good wifi.
Once done the weather started to change and eventually there was a heavy hail storm. Fortunately I was still in the car, heading for some wood I know where there is some interesting walks.
I got this photo in one of the warm sunny spells between the wind, rain and hail!
Lunch was back in the car – watching the hail.
Hail in Scotland
Once back at the campsite some of the hail showers looked more like snow showers. Not such a bad evening though, dinner in the watching movies on my iPhone.
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