Wednesday 25 February 2015

There has been walking…

But I have been very busy doing other stuff as well!

So here’s a quick round up.

David and I went for a quick stroll around Altyre.

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Tried to show him a track I’ve used before, but not for some time. I lost it.

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Ooops!

I went back again in the snow and did a different route.

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Low sun

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Blair’s Loch

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Altyre church

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I did NOT slip on the frozen snow, just before taking this photograph

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Half frozen

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Broken in the storms

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Frozen Blair’s Loch

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Frosty oak leaves

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Frosty ferns

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The little blog to the right of the tree trunk in the centre of the photograph is a red squirrel. Trust me.

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The site of the old curling rink has been cleared, the folly on the right

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A different view of the folly

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Not sure…

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…what I was interested by

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The old and the new estate fencing

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Ha! Yes, they were shooting, but luckily I’d change my mind about my route before I came across them, going the way I should have been coming!

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And I used my micro spikes!

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The pond, not frozen

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The swans, ready to make their new home

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Snowdrops

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Nice tree

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Really liked that tree

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Light on a nice tree

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A view (after I took the path I’d intended to take with David…)

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Fab bark on a silver birch

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Different lighting

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Remaining autumn fruit

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Dava Way, nearly at the Dallas Dhu distilliary

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Looking up through the branches to the blue sky

I’ve also walked home from Forres a couple of times by my alternative route (instead of the cycle path all the way)

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A pointless gate

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The pointless gate fastened with barbed wire?!

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Part of the Chapleton flood alleviation scheme

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More of the flood alleviation scheme

And then the weather got horrible and the camera went away

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I do not know…

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…I found half a ski with a wooden block screwed onto it

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Looking south along the Dava Way

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Different lighting

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Why??!!!

And there’s been walking with Laura!!

We did my Loch Romach circuit, with a bit of snow.

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It was a grey day over the Moray Firth

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Somewhere over there is Ben Wyvis

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Slightly snowy track, but we didn’t resort to micro spikes

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Laura catching me up

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Some people really are that stupid

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The frozen loch

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Through the trees towards the other end of the loch

And then we returned to the Revack Estate for a short walk, coffee but no cake!

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The view from the viewpoint

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We found this unusual method of harvest…

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…quite devastating

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By these people

And that is about it really. Obviously, no complete write ups, but that’s because none of the walks were new.