Thursday, February 07, 2013

Southern Upland Way by the Cree –17th November 2012

A cold damp but bright morning, we decided to walk a stretch of the Southern Upland Way that we hadn’t done before.

2-Southern-Upland-Way-sign

SUW Waymarker

1-forest

Through the larch woods

3-into-the-light

Into the light

4-up-the-path

Wrapped up for the cold!

5-cobweb

Glistening cobweb

6-sparkling-trees

Didn’t quite capture it, but these trees where sparkling in the sunlight

7-dry-stane-dyke

Mossy wall..

8-mossy-wall-and-tree

..and tree

9-larch

Larch

10-SUW-sign

This way..

11-Cree

Water of Cree

12-bridge-over-Cree

We stopped at the bridge..

13-bridge-over-Cree

..but didn’t go over

14-Cree

 

15-tree

Tree on the edge

16-scots-pine

Large pine

17-dodgy-path

Crossing the wet path under the fallen tree, this section was a bit wet!

18-larch

Looking up

19-birch-bracket

Birch Bracket fungi

20-birch-bracket

 

21-Clavulina sp

Clavulina sp

22-tree-lined-path

 

23-SUW-info-board

Sign at Bargrennan

24-trees

We then headed up the road…

25-view

…and across the fields, still following the SUW

26-Galloway-Hills

Unfortunately our route got too boggy and difficult to follow, so we had to retrace our steps back to Bargrennan

27-blue-sky

Back through the forest but on a different track

28-mossy-wall

Quite a good walk

apart from the boggy bit!

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