Walking Today
I had a short walk today down along the River Witham.
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Cloddymoss and Clubin
Cloddymoss and Clubin is an area of coastal forest just east of Nairn and on the Moray Firth. We spent the afternoon walking some of the tracks there – and having lunch.
this represents the village of Clubin which was buried by the sand dunes
Our walk took in the “Dragonfly Pool” – where we saw several very colourful Dragonflies darting around.
…and the dragonflies.
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Sunday’s Photos
The railway runs behind the Dingwall Camping and Caravan site – although the trains are frequent they do not really disturb us.
The footpath into the town crosses the line and with the sun this morning it made for a good photo – with a little help from Pro HDR, to balance out the light and add a bit to the saturation.
We headed north today and out to the coast near Nigg.
Ballintore
These fish are part of a number of public art exhibits along the coast.
A close up.
The Mermaid of the North
The rocks on the beach had interesting patterns in them.
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Tarbat Ness
We walked along the cliff tops and were able to easily get down to the sea – and we somewhere suitable for lunch. Here is a shot of Jeremy preparing the lunch on the Crusader stove – meatballs and crackers, followed by bananas and peach tea.
This is where we were having lunch.
We then walked up and around the point near the lighthouse.
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With it starting to get cloudy we decided to head back to the tent – Jeremy to read a book and me to work on a quote for a prospective new client.
Walking to Glenmore
The weather was fine today so Jeremy and I set off to the “Squirrel Cafe”, following the Old Logging Trail.
When we got to the Squirrel Cafe – it would have been rude not to have gone in.
Squirrel Cafe = Glenmore Shop and Cafe.
The shop is built on a steep slope so the cafe, at the back of the shop overlooks the forest. The owners put out bird and squirrel food so there are always lots off birds to see and most times red squirrels, but not today.
Loch Morlich
We found somewhere right by the Loch for lunch.
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Craigellachie National Nature Reserve
We had a short out to Craigellachie National Nature Reserve.
It was only a short walk as a heavy thunder storm rolled in – we made it back to the house without getting too wet.
We watched it from the patio but it did not last long.
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Inverness pt2
We walked out along the Riverside Walk – heading out of Inverness along the banks and across the islands of the river heading towards Loch Ness.
Aviemore
With today being the last day of the Olympics Jeremy and I want to watch some of the last events on the BBC – including Mountain Biking in Essex! The event is being held near Canvey Island, a place not know for high ground – however the Olympic organisers have built a spectacular course with rock imported from Derbyshire. (I know South Essex very well as I come from there.)
(The race has just finished and it was really exciting.)
So today, having watched the fencing in the Women’s Modern Pentathlon we went for a walk through the woods that surround Aviemore.
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Lunch
We found some suitable rocks to sit on for lunch.
Jeremy had packed a new solid fuel stove, his Mother had bought for him – when I was at school I had a similar army surplus stove. We set the stove up on a board, to protect the grass and to give it a stable base. The pot stands were locked at an angle because we were going to use a Crusader mug on it.
Lunch was instant chicken noodles and it took two fuel tablets to boil the 600ml of water. I had a hot drink so that was another tablet. Some care has to be taken when lighting the tablets as you have to hold the gas lighter on them for several seconds and the angle of the lighter has to be just so or you can burn your fingers – I did!
The burning tablets give off some fumes (which Jeremy did not expect that) but they are OK to use in the open air. They also soot up the bottom of the pot – so some care has to be taken when the pot is put down – rubbing the pot bottom on the grass can clean most of this off.
Jeremy is very pleased with this stove – he still has a sealed pack of twelve fuel tablets as he used some of mine – and he is packing this as a lunch/second stove for when he is walking.