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Howl Bush Craft

Spend four fantastic days on Loch Awe in Scotland in the hand of the great team from Howl Bush craft. The relaxing location and the team made this a very enjoyable journey. The knowledge both leaders had about canoeing, camping, Scotland, craft, fire, wild food etc was unlimited. You were always in safe hands, yet never felt like you were in bubble wrap or on a guided tour. You took part in the…

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Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe

Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe

The last day of my visit to Loch Awe was a washout. The strong tail wind and wobbly waves along with the heavy rain made it rather hard to take a snap of Kilchurn Castle from a canoe on the Loch. Though even if this photo is not pin sharp, this panorama really shows off how dramatically the castle, the Loch and Scotland can be.

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Loch Awe

Woke up bright a early and just had to enjoy the peace and clam before the rest of the world, well the birds had beaten me, woke up. If you fancy you can listen to the sound there, over on soundscapes@woollypigs

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Eilean MoLaise #soctland #photography #moon More commonly known as the Holy island, just off the coast from Lamlash on Isle of Arran.

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Pladda Lighthouse

Pladda Lighthouse # isleofarran #scotland #photography

Had a very windswept walk on Kildonan beach, got the cobwebs well and truly blown away. Could have spend many more hours walking here, will be back one day. As I can just stare at the waves for hours on end. On the way back the light and clouds changed and we got this rather cool looking light.

In the background behind Pladda you can just make out Ailsa Craig, where you can find the blue hone…

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Weather front

Weather front #lochranza #isleofarran #scotland #photography

View from Lochranza on Isle of Arran, towards the Kintyre peninsula. This is the tail end of the shower that gave us a good “wash”. When the weather forecast says showers, do be prepared wrap up fast, as you will get a soaking double fast at random times. As you can see on the other photo, the shower had on higher grounds brought some snow with it.

Lochranza Distillery, jolly good wee dram.…

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Goatfell Had a few days on Isle of Arran. This snap was taken from the ferry as we left, the mountain had a wee dusting of snow doing the night.

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Tilley #photography #pets #dogs We are coming up to 6 years with this mutt. And I'm sorry for being such a bad owner/companion, I mean I haven't shared many photos of her here. Though, head over to instagram for more 🙂

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Dragon #photography #insect For once this dragonfly sat still long enough for me to change lens, focus and snap.

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Time go by #photography #b&w #parkbench This bench have seen a fair few things. Sadly by the look of it not many people have stopped to watch time go by on it.

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Bracken I know they are often seen as a weed, but I do like the look of them and always reminds me of New Zealand.

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Money tree Funny things these, never really heard about or seen these before. Now nearly every time we go to a bit of wood where there is a fallen tree, we find one.

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Port Logan Not much to say just a grand day out to a corner of Scotland we haven't been to before.

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Lowther Castle

We “fell” over this castle on our last trip out and about. Didn’t even know about it until we drove past it, changed our plans and spend a morning walking the grounds and visited the great cafe, erm, yes there was cake.

There is a interesting story to this – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowther_Castle

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When is winter

I don’t see winter in Meteorological vs astronomical terms, I see it in how much snow we get.  Meteorological: This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere

Astronomical:  The determines the seasons due to the 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth’s rotational axis in relation to its orbit around the sun. Also in the Northern Hemisphere, depending on the…

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Huldra, the lady of the forest #photography @SkiptonWoodsWT @WoodlandTrust We got a new guardian of our local woodland. she reminds me of the Huldra. "The female huldra is almost invariably described as being incredibly, seductively beautiful", which is she clearly is.

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Canal life #photography #leedsandliverpoolcanal The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is always busy but at the same time also one of the best places to go for walk.