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Walking Group One 25th April 2024
Five hardy souls collected today at Happy Valley for the first Hill Walk of the year .The temperature was cool with a North Easterly wind blowing and a hint of rain on arrival.
Off we set heading towards Russadale Quarry, spotting a Buzzard on the way.Turning into the footpath we remained sheltered from the wind all the way to the top of the hill.
The sun was out at the Quarry and a Greenshank was feeding at the edge of the Lochan. Then it was up the Peat road to the summit with spectacular views across Stenness and Harray Lochs, plus a view of the Closed Road beyond the Watch Stone. On the other side we looked over the Flow and down towards the Oil Platform and South Ronaldsay
Then it was back down after a stop for a snack and finally a walk around Happy Valley itself. The Daffodils planted by James and others were looking lovely and the Bluebells are days away from opening. Then it was on to a well deserved lunch at the Pier Cafe, having walked 4 miles and gone up 800 feet (and down again )
The next walk will be on Friday 24th May and hopefully more hills and views.
Keep moving.
Chairman's Blog - September 2018
by Peter Slater - 21:02 on 25 September 2018
The committee met at Vagaland, Stromness on Tuesday 18th September. Ronnie Johnston and Phylida Wright were welcomed as Treasurer and Secretary respectively. Ronnie reported that the finances were in good shape and paid particular tribute to Sally MacKintosh for the care and thoroughness with which she had looked after them.
General Meetings were now arranged for the period to March and there was some discussion of possible speakers that the Chairman might approach to speak thereafter, with a number of good ideas emerging.
Angela Way wished to stand down from organising general meeting refreshments, a task she has carried out quietly and with great efficiency for many years, and for which we are all very grateful. Trevor Kay agreed to look after the supplies and rota from the new year.
The Anniversary Party had generated a good deal of interest, with a two page spread in this month’s Living Orkney magazine. Despite the odd hiccup the rota for writing meetings up in the Orcadian had worked reasonably well, though more volunteers to do this would be welcome. Again, this gave good publicity, and membership had recently risen quite sharply: it now stood at 114. With this number it was felt there might be scope for more groups, and Peter would draft a questionnaire to see what might interest people. Group sizes varied rather a lot: some could do with boosting (e.g. crafts) and others were almost unmanageably large (e.g. Music appreciation).
Judy O’Connor reported on progress in organising the Christmas meal, scheduled for 13th December in the Kirkwall Hotel.
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