Monday Walks

Off to the Black Isle for this week's walk. Culbokie Woods, to be exact. We have never walked here before, so it was all new to us. So new, in fact, that we were somewhat taken aback to find that some significant works had been going on and the car park was a bit of a quagmire. Who knew what the walk would be like once we started walking? Certainly, the entrance to the woods was a bit on the guttery side. It wasn't long before it got a bit better, though.   The walk description said that we would come to a burn in a deep cutting, which we did. It was actually deeper than it looks, but it was pretty overgrown, so it didn't appear as deep as it was in real life. The burn's Gaelic name is An Garbh Allt - the rough burn - which seems pretty descriptive. The burn issues from Culbokie Loch., which is rather more marsh than loch. Apparently, you should be able to see Herons fishing here, but they were nowhere to be seen whilst we visited. There was a buzzard soaring high overh...