What we did in our hols - or - how to make 9 days in Scotland feel like three weeks! (and how do you choose 30 photos from over 500?)

Waiting outside the museum for the rest of the Yorkshire OUGS to arrive On the banks of the Mennock Water
An early morning drive to Wanlockhead - but we aren't the first to arrive! Bob has been nominated as film director - what is he looking at?  - see below left!
Looking towards the Mennock Pass That's where we are headed next - into the mist!
Can you see us, lurking in the stream, busy panning?

More pics: goldpanning 2003; 2005; 2007

 View from our hotel window - but you can't see the hares sitting on the path below for their early morning ablutions
Local inhabitants Bob on the bridge
Double trouble Aberfeldy - lunch stop
Same bridge Still some snow on top
Look, it's me - proving I was there and not just behind the camera :-) Looking past the Black Watch Inn towards the mountains
Queen Isabella - wife of Robert the Bruce - whose family came from Normandy via Yorkshire First morning was a bit wet
Loch Tummel and the Queen's View - and Bob Ah, here is our wild flowers group - looking for flowers
Still wet! There's a story behind this -
Brerachan meadow - globe flowers by the banks of the River Ardle Rocks had to come into this somewhere - this is the Soldier's Leap at Killiecrankie, from river level
Worth the long walk - and we saw lots of other plants on the way In a garden opposite the kirk
A long walk in the woods to find the Bird's Nest Orchid "Fox and cubs" - also known as "Grim the Collier" - orange hawkweed
View from the back window View from our bedroom window
Early morning at Kindrogan - very early - 4.00 am-ish Birds on the feeder - greenfich and siskin
On the banks of the River Tay bumblebee.org for info
Now, where have I left that contact lens? -  One for Lucy - a bumble bee on a comfrey flower
Bouncing across the grass to get here Quarry? Another chance to look at rocks?
Another visitor to the bird feeder! Common twayblade in the woods by the quarry
That's the River Tay down there - our next rendezvous After this, we walked along the decking walkway and along the railway line
Spectacular views from Kinnoull Hill River meadows on the Tay
On our way to Inverallochy via Braemar Someone kite surfing in the bay
Note the sadist dragging his caravan down that very steep hill!  Here we are at the Cairnwell Pass, 665 m up Arrived in time for a walk along the beach above Inverallochy
It was a bit breezy! Still windy!
Bob and Alan enjoying the walk - not sure about Penny - View across to Fraserburgh
Off home to see Jessie and those chocolate shortbreads Just looking - all that geology, so near and yet so far (sigh)

 
Off into the wide blue yonder Whitelinks Bay
A lot of Bennetts in one place The food was scrumptious, Jessie got enough to feed three
Off for a knees up at the Station Hotel And here's one Jessie took, to show I am still there
Here's one I digitally enhanced ;-) High seas and wind lashing the wreck at Cairnbulg Point
Bob - a thorn between two roses? Good thing we were leaving, if it was going to be like this on Sunday!  Howling wind and rain all the way home

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