Saturday, February 09, 2013

Glenamour to Bruntis Loch, Kirroughtree - 29th December 2012

Not a great day weather wise, and very wet underfoot so settled for a forest walk on good paths.
1-Kirroghtree-trailsWe parked at Glenamour and headed into the forest.
2-fallen-tree
A few trees down after the recent storms
3-Scots-on-the-rocks
Amazing how these trees hang on to the rocks
4-winding-road
Winding road through the forest
5-mossy-trees
Moss covered trees
6-heron
Heron on Little Bruntis Loch
7-heron
Take off!
8-diamond-stane
One of the Galloway Forest Park sculptures, The Gem Stane one of the 7 Stanes
9-rain
Just thinking about sitting on the seat by Bruntis Loch for our lunch when it poured..
10-splashes
…settled for sheltering under a tree until it stopped!
11-hobbit-bridge
They were building this lovely “Hobbit” like bridge last time we visited
12-diamond-stane
The Gem Stane
13-rose-quartz
This 1.75 ton stone is made from Scottish pink quartz.
14 Stane

15-diamond-stane
I met a couple of cyclists here on the 7stanes mountain bike route, I took their photo by the stanes on their phone, hope it came out ok!
16-reflections
Just as we were stood by the loch, the sun came out and we got some good reflections.
17-reflections-landscape

18-reflections

19-reflections

20-reflections
I love turning these reflections around and getting strange tree faces!
21-reflections

22-reflections

23-reflections

24-tree seat
Seat sculpture on a tree
25-scots-pine
Scots Pine
And finally, before we left the forest we had to clean our boots, as a precaution against the larch decease!

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