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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.
PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP 2 - CATHEDRAL
by John Graham - 10:37 on 31 July 2013
'Photogrouptwo' continues its hesitant way, but yesterday's meeting in the sunshine around the cathedral turned out well with another new face appearing, afterwards a couple of us retired to a nearby coffee stop: our front lounge, as it was so close. We have decided that the next meeting of this group will be aimed at Lyness, Hoy on Tuesday 20th. August. We will meet at Houton ferry (Richard Gibson please note, I told you Hatston, not Houton terminal). We will meet at 0945 for the 1000 ferry. A packed lunch could be taken or the cafe at the museum would save carrying butties. return ferries are at 12.30, 1400 or 16.40, probably the heavier the rain the ealier the ferry we catch. There will be two other regular photograpers with us for this meeting.
I will send out a reminder a couple of days before the meeting.
best regards, John Graham
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