Happy .....
16th
September 2017 (Saturday)
..... 09.00 “Good Morrrrrning” everyone
.... on a nice, albeit mostly overcast with the threat of rain, Saturday
morning. The beach (yes I’ve been down there) is the
place to go for a relaxing, slightly chilly, walk: the tide is out ... and it’s the ‘sunrise
season’. I missed the sun rising ...
that happened behind a cloudbank, but it was bonnie nonetheless. Nae ‘plan’ for today ... I might go up to the
Deil’s Lodge and walk down to the pond ... in the afternoon, when the sun is
blazing down!
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| The beach at sunrise. |
19.30 The sun wasn’t ‘blazing down’ when I did
the North Lodge walk, in fact is was spitting rain, on and off, for most of the
time. I decided to do this walk clockwise
today; I enjoyed doing the walk ‘backwards’,
but it’s not something I will be doing again! Going down to the sawmill is easy, it’s a gentle
downward slope, but coming back up the North Lodge road is hard work, up a
steep incline from the burn all the
way to the North Lodge. The total distance walked was 2.68
kilometres (1.66 miles)... though by the time I was back at the car it felt
like I’d walked a lot further. I
forgot to take a bottle of water with me, so I was thirsty, and, because I
could hear the Den Burn in the background, I was desperately thirsty when I got
to the car. I forgot that the North Lodge road is
actually steep. I’ve biked up it, and
it is hard work . This is one ‘boy’
that will sleep well tonight.
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| Morning sunlight on Earlsferry. |
It
hasn’t been a bonnie day...too many spells of rain... and it has been
cold. I’d say that the time for scarves and gloves is upon us
once again.... the weather forecast mentioned frost for the Highland glens. Having
said that, a group of folk went up
Ferry Road earlier this evening, and one of
them was in ‘shirt sleeve order’.
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| Footpath near Balcarres sawmill. |
Tomorrow’s
weather is supposed to be drier than today’s was, and with the wind being light
it shouldn’t feel too cold; even if the
wind is from the Northeast.
I
have ‘nae plan’ for tomorrow: apart from thinking of getting up early to
catch the sunrise. That depends on how
tired I am. I’ve had an enjoyable time
today, even with the weather being iffy.... more of the same tomorrow would be fine.
Photographs:
Top and Middle - taken on the beach this morning, and, Bottom –
one of the paths near Balcarres sawmill.
