Friday, November 09, 2012

Ardwell to New England Bay–13th October 2012

Another stretch of the new Mull of Galloway Trail, we have done some of this walk before, but not all of it and not since the trail was completed.1-signpost

We parked at the Ardwell Picnic site.

2-Mull-of-Galloway-trail

This board is about Chapel Rossan Bay and the Murder Stone

3-into-the-light

Small boat being towed from the water.

4-ardwell

Deserted beach

5-ardwell

Sun glinting on the sea.

6-next-sign

The trail now crosses the road….

7-field-edge

…and follows the field edge before crossing back over the road into the woods.

8-giant-bracket-fungus

Huge bracket fungus on the ground

9-autumn-colours

Autumn beech leaves

10-farm

I love this farmhouse across the road with its castellated roof

11-track

This is where we went wrong and lost the track for a while, we should have turned right over the wall but instead headed down the track-oops!

12-Chapel-Rossan-Bay

Chapel Rossan Bay looking north

13-sticks

 

14-sticks

 

15-chapel-rossen

 

16-lower-mandible-gannet-pos

I think this might be the lower mandible of a gannet

17-cormorant

Shag

18-cormorant

 

19-dead-seal

Dead seal Sad smile

20-small-tortoiseshell

Small Tortoiseshell making the most of the sunshine

21-nest

Large nest

22-turnstones

Turnstones

23-oystercatchers

Flying Oystercatchers

24-grey-seal

Grey Seal, at least theres live ones around too!

25-reflected-rock

Reflected rock

26-old-windmill

Logan Windmill

27-Logan-Mills

Logan Mills

28-Logan-Windmill-sign

Interpretation board about the windmill

29-derelict-cottage

Derelict cottage

30-Logan-Windmill

 

31-on-the-rocks

On the rocks

32-bridge

One of the new bridges on the trail

33-Potacree

Portacree

34-fishermans-cottage

Fishermans cottage

35-bouys

Bouys

36-Portacree

 

37-Logan-Mills

Logan Mills

38-MOD-sign

Lots of little bits of land owned by the MOD around here.

39-rockpool

Looking for life in the rockpools…

40-fish

…found some!

41-New-England-bay

New England bay looking towards The Mull of Galloway

42-ruby-tiger-caterpillar

Ruby Tiger caterpillar

43-fox-moth-caterpillar

Fox moth caterpillar

44-Bright-line-Brown-eye-caterpillar

Bright-line Brown-eye moth caterpillar

45-Logan-Windmill

A closer view of the windmill on the way back

46-hare

Brown Hare on the beach, not something you see often

47-rabbits

and rabbits

48-heron

Grey Heron

49-Silver-Y

Silver Y moth

50-footpath-sign

We managed to find the right route on the way back!

51-Allium triquetrum

Allium triquetrum

52-sign

This is the sign we missed!

53-White-Horses

White hoses

54-toadstools

Eaten fungi

55-Ardwell

Back along a deserted beach to our car

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A lovely walk!