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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 OCTOBER
by John Graham - 20:21 on 16 October 2013
Hello people with cameras,
There seems to be a consistant nucleus now to keep 'photogrouptwo' happily snapping away: good. Our next meeting outdoors will be on Tuesday 12th. November, at 2 pm. We will meet in St. Mary's, Holm near the sharp bend as you enter the village from the Kirkwall direction.
It is the aim of our visits to give each person a chance to create their own ideas of a picture, not necessarily to show the location at its best. At present we are rather out of sequence with dates due to my own holidays, but wishing to keep the group going the irregular dates are likely to continue for the next few meetings. However we will maintain the Tuesday meeting day.
On Friday 1st. November we are putting up a two week display of our pictures created from our Lyness visit a couple of months ago. This will be of small prints in the foyer of the Kirkwall library. It is hoped that this display will advertise our group as well as the U3A generally.
cheerio for now, John Graham
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