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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.
U3A Walking Group - September 2019
by Tim Wright - 19:17 on 12 September 2019
Seven intrepid souls set off to walk the Covenanters path in Deerness.
All was sunny as we got to the Memorial and found the graves on the shore. However, the clouds thickened and although it looked like we might be spared, the rain set in for most of the second half of the walk. A couple of birds cheered us up in a lull, a Stone Chat and a very healthy looking Wheatear fresh from Scandinavia perhaps. It looked just like one of the ones that I saw on the Falsbro peninsular in Sweden last week. Lunch was taken at Glues as Sheila Fleets was over run.
The next walk will be Friday 11th October, place and time to be decided. Hopefully we will have dried out by then.
Keep moving, Tim.
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