Sorry for not posting over the weekend but my daughters kept me pretty busy.
Well my Friday afternoon off started of poorly then got a lot better. I drove out to Haperigg and parked next to the fishing hut, I was intending just to walk round the resivior & spot some wildlife. I was only out the car a couple of minutes , looking at the Info board & a landy drove up & older gent stuck his head out the window and gruffly informed me 'were lambing , mind what your doing and going' then drove off without letting me answer. So I thought stuff this can't be bothered with the hassle I'll go along the lanark road to the burn & walk there. So after a 5min drive, I get there to find they are clear cutting the entire pine forrest on the path side of the burn, so that was that walk out as well.
I sat for 5mins & thought where to go. I remembered someone else had said Auchengray wasn't to bad, drove round that area for about 20mins but couldn't really find anywhere to go. I was abit disheartned at this point & thought I'm off home. So I drove back the way of Bathgate & as I thought I'm in the area lets go to Cairnpapple & have a cuppa.
Got up to parking space at Cairnpapple ,set up my brew kit at side of road & had a stroll about for 10mins while water boiled & took some nice scenery photo's. Older couple arrived to see monument ,chatted to them for 10mins & spotted a bit of Wood I'd never noticed before. Tidy my stuff away worked out how to get to wood, phoned the missus to say I would be late( hehe).
I drove over to the Korean War monument had a walk round then walked up onto the plateau , from here it was a 300yd walk along a small cliff face to the wood, I wandered round this for 40mins just checking things out. Lots of animal tracks(I'm clueless to most tracking things ,something else to learn
), lots of dead wood for making things & small controlled fires in my firebowl.
It seems a nice peacefull little wood that I can go & spend some time in, only problem I can see is leaving my car at war monument, I'll have to check around to see if anywhere else to leave car & I will also have to check to see if wood is privately owned or council land.
Hehe this is the longest post I've ever written. So it started out bad & ended well. Sorry if I seem to ramble a bit ,but written english is not my strong point.
Tree
ps. I'll post some pics of wood when I get home from work.
