falls of the clyde

[alanssaab]

well i had the weekend of , so friday was bevvy night , saturday was recovery day andworking out what to do on sunday , i had planned just to fling the rucksack on my back around 6am and head down the clyde side on my lonesome , however the wife and daughter had other ideas ,so i left the rucksack and jumped into the saab with my 2 loved ones and headed for new lanark did i mention they like to take pictures
so , paked the car and headed into the reserve , i like to walk or yomp as the wife calls it so while waiting on them taking pics it gave me some time to look around , first up the foraging
blueberries to start with and some nice young dandylion leaves also found some young wild strawberries to munch on
birdwatching
lots of the little kind from wrens to wagtails but the highlight for us all were two perrigine falcons , which after a flyby decided to settle on a tree accross the vally from us i also found some of the trees they like to eat thier prey on , piles of feathers a real giveaway .
mushrooms
a few kinds i found were
slippery jack
birch polypore
very small horseshoe fungus
stinkhorn
chicken of the woods
it was.t exactly what i had in mind to do , but most enjoyable all the same , when the wife sorts the pics out i'll post some up
alan

 

[chickenofthewoods]

Nice. Sounds like my kind of day.

 

[Toddy]

It's beautiful up there I used to walk there with the boys through Corehouse to visit Cora and Bonnington Linns. When the Hydro lets the river flow over them the ground shudders with the rush of the waters.
There's a lot of ancient woodland in that area too, especially in the gills and along the river sides.

Looking forward to the photos.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[woodstock]

I was fortunate to have been born in Lanark completely surrounded by countryside I spent many a happy boyhood summer swimming or exploring either the clyde or the moose

 

[alanssaab]

ok heres some pics ,

 

[alanssaab]

some shrooms

 

[alanssaab]

and a few more
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[alanssaab]

 

[hanzo]

Very nice.

There was a tall ship named The Falls of Clyde. I do not recall its history but it was turned into a floating maritime museum.