I was lucky enough to attend the OU SXR339 Summer School at Kindrogan from Saturday, 29 July to Friday .4 August 2006

Sign says - "No parking - turning area only" Glen Gairn
Here we are, both red and green groups, studying our first outcrop Heading up the hill to Locality 3 - bus in far distance, middle right
Pencil for scale is 15 cm long View from the bridge
Ah!  What have we here?  Looks like we have made contact! Braemar - rocks in the river
I managed to capture the full sound and vision glory on my mobile phone Before the rain!
What luck!  Down the road came the local pipe and drum band! Early morning, Kindrogan
A chance to try out our newly acquired mineral identification skills A bit of nifty photography
Wolves Rock - this bit was sheltered from the rain Through the hand lens - x10
We were over there somewhere on Sunday - Pencil for scale again
Driving along the Midland Valley Terrane towards the seaside Another set of minerals - Nigg Bay
Time to get out the identification sheet I wish I had my painting set with me for this!
Another shot through the hand lens - x10 This was spectacular - north end of Nigg Bay
The long walk through the woods was worth the view Full length of stick is 1.2m - about 1m in view here
Stonehaven - looking north up the coast Skatie Shore - studying the rocks
So many interesting rocks to look at! What you don't see is the queue of traffic at the roadworks staring as we crawled over the rocks in the pouring rain
Garron Point - serpentinite - view is approx 1m high Road cutting at Dunkeld - rather wet!
Little red tree rat Short break before the next lab session
A visitor to the bird feeding station - also had great and blue tits, chaffinches, and the occasional woodpecker After the rain - lovely sunset - here behind Kindrogan House
Just off to collect the packed lunch Sedimentary structures, 15 cm pencil for scale
Another early morning - view from the Ardle block Strath Fionan - Locality 1
The weather was ideal - Conveniently placed notebook and stick to provide scale
Small loch near Strath Fionan Folded rocks
Looking towards Loch Rannoch There's that stick again
View from where we had lunch - not a Harrier in sight - at the moment - Yet more folded rocks!
Looking for Locality 6? Loch Tummel
Yomping through the purple heather - lovely smell! The Queen's View
Pencil for scale Probably more by guesswork than by knowledge?
Folds in the rocks at Locality 10 Quiz winners - the "Rockhoppers" - Matt, Olwen, Tony, Tony, Pam
Pink and grey rocky outcrop on the beach (In 2007, I went with OUGS to Kindrogan for "Not" SXR339) 

Left and below:

"Busman's holiday" - straight from Pitlochry to Fraserburgh - these are the local rocks at the fishing village where we stayed

 
Where's Charlie when you need him?  
Pencil for scale - still 15 cm long - Pencil for scale
Ah!  Cleavage! Lots of interesting patterns in the rocks - now, where's that thin section?

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