An afternoon with the dogs. pic heavy!

[southey]

My mum is staying at the, so decided to leave the nippers in her care and take the idiots out for a wander, we started in culbin forest on a mushroom hunt, i'm only just starting to learn about these( as displayed in another thread:o) so i'm still trying to identify them.
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there were a lot of these little yellow topped chaps.
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and these guys were massive.
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some one had left a little wreath and stick for soemthing, the dudes went to investigate.
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it was raining quite hard and there seemed to be a lot of damaged mushroom tops.Although these looked like they have been nibbled.
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then we went to Rossisle beech.and climbed a dune.
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Mukwa and Raker enjoyed a refreshing dip.
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before climbing another dune to decide wheather to go east of west.
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we chose to decide when we reached the beach.
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we decided to head west, this is the first dune we climbed.
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had a look at a sunken bunker.
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then tried to find some where for a brew.
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found a little stone look out point, a shelterd from the worst of the wind and rain, and got a brew on.
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three of the tiny little esbit blocks to bring to a rolling boil.
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but as the rain picked up decide to put the dudes in the boot, and drink my brew in comfort.
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Had a great afternoon out, felt nice and relaxed ready for more madness! thanks for looking at my long and drawn out post, Cheers guys.

[bushcraftbob]

what a lovely area and some cracking photos, its amazing how a good bimble out relaxes you and makes you feel ultra refreshed!!

[Robbi]

hey, that looks a great chill out time, good onya !

[Radix lecti]

Great pictures there Southey, i wish i could find that horeshoe fungus round my way its a bit scare where i go,looks like you had a good time just you and the hounds.
Darren

[lab72]

Nice labs what a place for walk:cool:

[Barn Owl]

Nice place to be.

[southey]

Cheers guys, have a look on google earth for kinloss, moray then go north slightly thats the beach, Culbin forest is west over the estury mouth and Rossisle is to the east running up to Burghead, it's a great place well worth the effort to visit, as is the Kimberly pub in Findhorn!!

[Barn Owl]

Cheers guys, have a look on google earth for kinloss, moray then go north slightly thats the beach, Culbin forest is west over the estury mouth and Rossisle is to the east running up to Burghead, it's a great place well worth the effort to visit, as is the Kimberly pub in Findhorn!!

Need a meet I reckon.

Was at Burghead many moons ago on a twitch.

[southey]

I would have loved to have met some local bush chaps, but situation conspires against me, iv'e got family help this week then stuffed for two, then family again for two days then wifey home and moving down south, i will be trying to come up as often as i can though we've decided to try and find a house up here, mabey a bit further towards Grantown on spey though. if you guys were to have a meet up here though i'd rekomend rossisle for a couple of nights then a walk to Culbin for another couple. it's great country and pretty quiet, especially off season, youd be hard pressed to pass two people in culbin in a day during winter.

[Shewie]

Cracking pics mate, looks like a grand place to kick back for a while.

[Mistwalker]

Very nice pictures! Really makes me miss living on the coast and going for walks on the beech. Thanks for sharing!