Recent westward trip... O'er the Border
Saturday 19th August 4pm looking west from the cafe railings at Mull of Galloway - the coast of Antrim lost in the haze.
Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, nestling in a pungent bed of purple heather.
Royal Navy air/sea rescue training at the Mull of Galloway
RSPB warden's base and visitor exhibition room with air/sea recuse helicopter about to take off.
Iron Age hut reconstruction (needs reconstructing!) at Clatteringshaws Loch (itself low for pipe repairs),
in the
Galloway Forest Park. Meikle Millyea in the Rhinns of Kells is the right-hand backdrop hill.
Kitty's Tearoom a gastronomic and aesthetic treat in the Royal Burgh of New Galloway.
22nd August circular walk over Mellbreak from Kirkstile
Grasmoor from the saddle of Mellbreak
24th August Walking a section of the Borders Abbeys Way between Hawick and Jedburgh
View east to The Cheviot from Merlin Dean on the slopes of Blacklaw overlooking the Jed Water valley.