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Crinan Moss / Image by drewbhoy |
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| I think this year he may well be right. |
Posted by drewbhoy29 Apr 24ce |
Crinan Moss / Image by drewbhoy |
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| Was watching Paul Murton yesterday focussing upon The Tay and he said - on average - it rains 250 days a year in Scotland! Surely not that much??? |
Posted by GLADMAN28 Apr 24ce |
Sarsgrum / Fieldnotes by markj99 |
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| I have friends in Scourie and Durness, they have no problem with anybody using the roads properly - the big thing is people's lack of knowledge of how to drive / use passing places properly. As usual, the few give the many a bad name. We have the same problems here in Aberdeenshire as well, away from the main double track roads - Cabrach, Cockbridge etc. Probably a problem everywhere. The rubbish thing is a complete lack of respect. |
Posted by drewbhoy 28 Apr 24ce |
Crinan Moss / Image by drewbhoy |
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| I'll be back in Tayvallich next year so hopefully a mini drought might help :-) |
Posted by drewbhoy 28 Apr 24ce |
Sarsgrum / Fieldnotes by markj99 |
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| I totally get that, I'd like to think I don't 'act like a tourist', but nevertheless I don't live in Wales or Cornwall so I basically am one, even if I probably know more about the landscape than 80% of the locals. |
Posted by thesweetcheat28 Apr 24ce |
Sarsgrum / Fieldnotes by markj99 |
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| Hit the nail on the head there, Mr D. The rubbish scum like that leave behind in Mid Wales would beggar belief if it wasn't so expected (although sadly in South Wales I'd say it's mostly locals to blame, which is even worse). Being labelled 'a tourist', I guess, is subject to what your motives are for being in a particular area and how you behave/relate to others... but perhaps more so how well you know the area. Although I know, say, Ireland, Cumbria or Cornwall fairly well, I'd still regard myself a tourist if/when I go back. Not so Wales, Scotland or Dartmoor where I try to keep as far away from 'named trails' as I can. I'd agree with Spencer that unless you are in the tourism business, the NC500 is not good for the people who actually call northern Scotland home. |
Posted by GLADMAN 28 Apr 24ce |
Boleycarrigeen / Image by ryaner |
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| That is class. Regret not seeing that one. One day, perhaps? |
Posted by GLADMAN 28 Apr 24ce |
Crinan Moss / Image by drewbhoy |
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| Recall having to wade to get to Tulloch of Assery up in Caithness, but this one is just ridiculous |
Posted by GLADMAN 28 Apr 24ce |
Carnasserie Cottage / Image by drewbhoy |
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| Yeah, I obviously 'saw it' from Carn Ban... but unless you know what you're looking at |
Posted by GLADMAN 28 Apr 24ce |
Crinan Moss / Image by drewbhoy |
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| The scuba gear was getting fixed after attempts to get onto Corr Eilean, an island with a bronze age cairn. |
Posted by drewbhoy 28 Apr 24ce |
Carnasserie Cottage / Image by drewbhoy |
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| There are rumours that there was another castle nearby, I didn't know until our host at Tayvallich mentioned it - he was right :-) A couple more of the lesser known Kilmartin places to post. |
Posted by drewbhoy 28 Apr 24ce |
Sarsgrum / Fieldnotes by markj99 |
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| Its the parking of camper vans in passing places over night that is the big problem plus the leaving of rubbish behind. |
Posted by drewbhoy 28 Apr 24ce |
Sarsgrum / Fieldnotes by markj99 |
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I hadn't heard of this before, but someone mentioned it at work the other day as a 'thing' they were going to do when they retired. I am a sucker for long distance walking (not driving) routes, mainly because you stand a better chance of the paths actually being open. They also take you to places you probably wouldn't have visited otherwise, which I think is a good thing generally. I get the desire to keep the 'tourists' away, but I'm a tourist in all the remote places I visit too. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 28 Apr 24ce |
Boleycarrigeen / Image by ryaner |
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| Utterly superb, that looks like my absolute favourite kind if site. And blue skies too! |
Posted by thesweetcheat 28 Apr 24ce |
Crinan Moss / Image by drewbhoy |
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| Disappointed there are no close-ups, Mr D? Surely you've scuba gear? |
Posted by GLADMAN 27 Apr 24ce |
Carnasserie Cottage / Image by drewbhoy |
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| Now I never knew this was here... the original precursor to the castle, then? Just so much going on around Kilmartin it beggars belief. Top work. |
Posted by GLADMAN 27 Apr 24ce |
Sarsgrum / Fieldnotes by markj99 |
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| Hahaha - funny how everything has to be labelled nowadays... I guess the NC500 is something tourists 'do' as a 'Highland Experience'... rather than simply making your way around the coast using a map. Sigh.. similar thing watching the processions of motorbikes and retro cars doing 'the route' around Mid Wales. We are the robots |
Posted by GLADMAN 27 Apr 24ce |
Sarsgrum / Fieldnotes by markj99 |
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| NC500: don’t get me started. Goodbye Paradise |
Posted by spencer25 Apr 24ce |
Slievecorragh / Image by ryaner |
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Called Dan Clancy's Chair (see miscellaneous for the story) |
Posted by ryaner19 Apr 24ce |
Aran Fawddwy / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| It was an amazing place, absurdly windy. It took me about 4 hours to get to the top, the first 3 hours 45 of which were in cloud, then thick, wet fog with zero visibility. I very nearly turned back. The cloud lifted just as I got to the top, which was quite something. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 17 Apr 24ce |
Cat Cairn 2 / Image by LesHamilton |
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| Good to see the gorse removed Les, nice pic of the cairn behind as well. |
Posted by drewbhoy 17 Apr 24ce |
Aran Fawddwy / Image by thesweetcheat |
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| Some place SC, fantastic all round views and blue sky!!! :-) |
Posted by drewbhoy 17 Apr 24ce |
Arthur's Stone / Image by MelMel |
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| Ha, brilliant. I'll stop next time I'm passing. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 16 Apr 24ce |
Arthur's Stone / Image by MelMel |
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| Brilliant to see, another pub to visit as well :-) |
Posted by drewbhoy 16 Apr 24ce |
Banc y Celyn / Image by thesweetcheat |
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It is quite a view, and curiously, it is intervisible with Bwlch y cerrig duon barrow, in the upper Tawe valley. https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=9233&forum=4 |
Posted by cerrig 15 Apr 24ce |
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