A View over Town

16.5C and mostly bright. Plenty of cloud. One or two very light showers. Moderate Southerly breeze.

After lunch Maeve the Deerhound and I went for a short walk. A repeat of our early morning walk. We are determined to let Maeve rest this week.

Once Maeve was back home and settled I went for a walk. Classical music on the iPod Mini. I went round to the harbour and went out on the old quay to have a look at an interesting old wooden boat/yacht that was in the marina. Then I went along by the ferry terminal and along the shore side of the park and on out Kilkerran road to the NATO jetty at Glenramskill. I came back the same way then along the street side of park then carried on into town.

Since I was on my own I decided to try a path at the back of town that we can see from the back windows of the house. Maeve and I went to find it near the end of April but we didn't walk along it. From the house we can see one end of the path up by a farm and that it goes along between two fields. In the smaller of the fields are some calves, and in the larger field which goes up and over the top of the hill there are cows. We have seen people walking along from time to time but didn't know where the other end of the path came out. Well, now I know. It is a grass path, mostly long grass with narrow strip trampled along it. Turns out, as suspected, that the path runs parallel to our road (and to another road behind the distillery) and comes out near some houses, the recycle centre, and the gas works. From the path there is quite a good view over town (Springbank distillery buildings mid ground right) to the loch and Davaar island.

When I got back home Maeve seemed quite content.

Gannets. Not diving.
Oystercatchers.
Gulls.
Terns.
Common Sandpipers.
Swans.
Sparrows.
Blackbirds.
Crows. The latter three in the fields behind town.

Go large for all the detail. No prizes for spotting our house :-)

E-PL5 f/9 1/500 sec. ISO-200 14mm