we're going on a bear hunt........

Yikes where did August go it  seem ages since I have blogged.

Work, doing up a cottage and weekends away and voila September !

 

Andy and I decided to have an "us" day we don't get as many as we would like.

A bear hunt it wasn't so sorry if my title enticed you here under false pretences,

 we were going on a fossil hunt.

 

A local blog that Andy follows talked of a local beach where fossils can be found.

I have a small collection they intrigue me, so thoughts of finding one locally excited us.

The last one I found was on a French beach many years ago.

 

So off we went a short ferry ride to Ardnamurchan and a drive through stunning scenery.

 A casual stroll amongst the pebbles, we  gazed into clear rock pools.

Rannoch chased shoreline birds, went swimming and played with seaweed.

 

We saw a vast array of rocks and stones geologically the area is very interesting.

Sadly no fossils that day but I am sure we will return.

Today gales are battering our shores so it seems weird writing this blog and looking at the photo's,

that were only taken yesterday. The warmth of the sun shining down on us, the layers disappeared.

We left the beach and made our way through a waist high nettle field ( ouch ) to the lane that would get us

back to the car. The hedgerows brimming with shiny berries. We came across a lovely doer upper.

 

 

We headed back to car, stopping to have an ice cream from the tiny local shop.

Ardnamurchan lighthouse was our next stop.

The weather was now changing clouds started to fill the blue skies we watched as yachts and boats went by

 

 

The icing on the cake which more than made up for not finding a fossil

a pod of playful dolphin's gave us a great display as they swam by.

 

 

 

  

He's growing.....

Brrr the weather is changing the trees and bracken are all changing colours.
The temperature has dropped and the nights are drawing in.
Up here in the highlands in summer its still light till midnight.
Now its pitch black at 8pm but the dark skies allow for great stargazing.
A grabbed my down jacket for a beach walk with the dogs
Rannoch now 4 months still has lots of growing to do.
The difference between him and Sparky is now obvious.
They had great fun playing fetch with the ball.

on the sea again :-)

A recent convert to sea kayaking and desperate
to get out there and up my skill level. A few
circumstances slowing things down,one of them being
lack of my own kayak,thus having to hire ......
but none the less just back from a week away.
Where my paddling hours have now increased with
some great little trips completed. Mull,Ulva then over
to Loch Sunart with a couple of paddles
in that area, a day on Iona thrown in between.
So it started with a room with a view














then the obvious














a perfect lunch stop














amazing coastline






























saying "hello" to the locals















so heres to 2010 bringing me my own kayak
so I can just get out there and paddle :-)