[This walk was completed on Thursday 23rd May 2024]
Today, I’m jumping ahead of myself on my walk – for a very good reason. It is too windy to cycle safely and, without my bike, I have no way of getting back to where I ended my previous walk – in the middle-of-nowhere place called Crackaig.
But, there happens to be a bus service along the A9. So, I can catch a bus to the next place up the coast, a village called Brora. From here, I will be walking back to my base in Golspie.
[This walk was completed on Tuesday 21st May, 2024]
I’ve just finished taking my self-portrait, when a young male hiker appears along the path. I have to hastily remove the remnants of my picnic lunch – and my camera – because I am blocking his way! Take a photo of his disappearing back.
[This walk was completed on 21st May 2024]
It is another cloudless morning. I chain my bike up behind a notice board in Helmsdale Harbour. I’m nervous leaving it so close to a busy car park, but decide to leave it in full view of some nearby houses. Hopefully it will still be here when I finish my walk!
Make my way up to the A9, and follow the road over the bridge. It’s a pretty impressive bridge.
[This walk was completed on Monday the 20th May, 2024]
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday was misty and damp, but today is brilliant sunshine with blue skies and a clear horizon. How wonderful!
[This walk was completed on Sunday, 19th May 2024]
It’s a drizzly, mizzly, damply misty morning. I walk down into Berriedale and look across the valley to take a photograph of the road I will be climbing shortly. Sadly, it looks just as foggy on the other side.
[This walk was completed on Saturday 18th May, 2024]
Today, I will be mainly road-walking along the notorious A9. But, first, I follow a minor road under the overpass, and take a path up the hill. Great views. Dunbeath doesn’t seem very large from up here.
[This walk was completed on Friday, 17th May, 2024]
I cycle back to the cemetery in Latheron. The old chapel is now the Clan Gunn heritage centre – but it is closed. Chain my bike behind a public toilet (also closed) and set off for my road-walk to Dunbeath.
[This walk was completed on Thursday, 16th May, 2024]
I walk down to the harbour at Lybster. It is a pleasant stroll along a road, in watery sunshine.
[This walk was completed on Tuesday 14th May, 2024]
It is a beautiful place to have lunch. On flat rocks, with waterfalls cascading down the slope above, and a ruined building perched in the distance.
[This walk was completed on Tuesday, 14th May, 2024]
From the bus stop on the main road, I walk along the little lane that leads to the Whaligoe Steps. Past the row of little cottages, past a number of vehicles trying to get into the tiny car park (which is full), until I reach the end of the tarmac.
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Incident number 1305Date: 30.08.26Site: Public footpath alongside of Egglestone Abbey near Barnard Castle. County Durham.Bull with cows and calves (Comment: very large brown cattle with small horns.)2 walkers with dog on a lead. Miley’s Report: “We were walking from woods towards grasslands alongside Egglestone Abbey. This was the only route back to the gate onto […]
Incident number 1303Date: 31.5.26Site: Between Lewes and Hamsey on the river footpath BN7I dog, on a lead, 2 walkers Description: “Chased by cows on footpath, not for the first time here but very scary. Our dog froze in panic making getting away from cows near impossible.We reported it to the council who have replied saying […]
Incident number 1301Date: 24.05.26Site: Roughly this: What3words:Punctuate.Otter.Fronted. Near Over Alderley, Hare Hill permissive path. 1 dog on lead, 3 walkers. RH’s report: “We were just walking and suddenly a group of cattle burst out of a field (from nowhere) and moved around us, not charging but getting quite close, agitated and shifting around restlessly with […]
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