Geocaching

Recap from the last week

Been a bit behind with my "photo a day" thing, since Kerry was visiting and I've been feeling a little under the weather the last few days. So here's an update of what I've been getting up to and what I've been photographing!

Kerry, standing outside of Claire's accessories (with a cheese and onion pastie) as a distraction so that I could take a photo of the merchandise advertisement in the window, which stated "IMPRESS EDWARD" and "IMPRESS JACOB" (Twilight characters). I was in utter disbelief at the stupidity of the adverts in trying to lure young girls into buying accessories in order to "impress" a character from a book/film who doesn't even exist.

Kerry getting "suited up" for what turned out to be an extremely wet walk to the beach. Was actually a lot of fun.

Stuart on the roundabout at Pittencrief park, Dunfermline.

A wee self-portrait of Stu and I (think this may be the first photograph of us together). I like it muchly :)

Jellies at Shell Bay. An absolutely unbelievable amount of these jellyfish had washed up all along the shore. Not sure what was causing it or whether they're being killed off by something. Interesting site, though we had to watch our step. Slippery little buggers!

My mum and Pepe posing for a photo at Shell Bay.

While looking for somewhere at ******* reservoir to hide our first cache, my mother and I came across these two, rather upset, geese. Pepe wasn't the slightest bit bothered by them but their hissing really began to creep me out.

Sunshine and Berries

Went berry picking yesterday evening. We have to pick the fruit from the big garden to freeze since the owners are away and I volunteered to do it. LOADS of Rasps and Blackcurrants!

Rainy days

The weather has been terrible for the past 48 hours, and I'm scared of getting my camera wet, so I've not taken any photos of anything particularly interesting. So I've had to resort to what I can see out of the window, and various other mundane things that are lying about the house, such as tennis balls!

Berry season

Been picking raspberries and gooseberries today, despite the weather being more like October than July. At this moment I can hear the rain lashing off of the windows, trying to get in!
I may have overdone it with the berries actually. Feeling a bit sick! But there's nothing better than eating berries fresh off of the plant! Can't wait to go strawberry picking, just so I can eat more than I actually put in the punnet!

Big cats in Britain

It appears I am destined to have an encounter with one of these elusive "beasts".
While reading the newspaper today I noticed a small filler article on a big-cat sighting near Aviemore, click here to see it. The exact location was Inshriach forest, near Kincraig.

My boyfriend and I are planning a visit to the Aviemore area at the beginning of August and Inchriach forest is one of the places we want to go walking when we get there. So it seems a strange coincidence that after looking up Blairadam forest and finding the tale of the "beast" and then this news report on a sighting at Inshriach. At least I will have my camera on me if I do see anything!

Sightings for large black cats seem to be very common. And although there have been several videos of sightings, no-one seems to have been able to provide undeniable evidence and indeed, proof, that these cats are anything other than large domestic moggies.
For more stories on "big cats" living in the UK visit the Big Cats in Britain blog here or for more information on black panthers (the big-cats in question) click here


Source:http://www.rock104fm.com/assets/images/Black_Panther.jpg

Although, I can understand why nobody has taken a close up photo of one of these things. If I walked round a bend in the path and saw this staring at me, I'd be off! Let's hope my 15x zoom comes in handy ;)

Beast of Blairadam cont...

No sign of the beast! There were a couple of dodgy-looking gypsy types lurking about the carpark though. I was a little disappointed we didn't see any big cats actually :( I mean, I know I would have run a mile if one had slunk across the path infront of us, but still. Did get some other lovely photos though, and Stuart has discovered his love for Macro photography and has become a camera hogger!

Ruddon's point

Took a trip to Shell bay and Ruddon's point today through the pine forest behind the caravan park. Intended to try and find one of the geocache sites without a GPS as I knew that it was in an area of old bricks. I couldn't find it though. To be honest I didn't really know what I was looking for!
Did get a few good photos though, of course!

Beast of Blairadam

I have discovered Geocaching! Going in search of a cache tomorrow in Blairadam forest, near Kelty. Rumour has it there is a large black panther-type cat getting about in the woods. Hopefully get it on camera! For now, here's a photo I took of my (less sizeable) cat, Jenny, while she was chillaxing on the windowsill.

Chasing the sunset...again

Another gorgeous sunset tonight. This time I still had the slippers and pyjamas on, but I was also sporting a furry hat with ear-flaps. It's what all the photographers are wearing, honest!
I got some great photos though. Tried out my panoramic mode again and got this one!



You can see some others I took on my Flickr (photostream on the left)

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Devilla Forest

Yesterday, I made the mistake of not fully charging my camera batteries before going out.

Stuart and I went to Devilla Forest, near Kincardine, for a leisurely stroll through the woods (actually ended up with soaking jeans from all the wet vegetation, quite unpleasant. I need to invest in a pair of gaters).

We walked down the "red squirrel trail"...not sure why they named it that, there was not a single squirrel to be seen! They must have been sheltering from the rain! Luckily there weren't any as I would have been gutted if I'd missed a photo-op because of batteries being dud!

Did manage to get this photo of Stu before the batteries gave up the ghost. Think it might have been worth it. He looks very good in his hiking boots and woolly socks, don't you think? :-)

Will have to make a return trip to Devilla Forest when I have adequate battery power and maybe when the weather is a little nicer!

Click here to visit the Forestry Commission website for Devilla Forest.

Chasing the sunset

I had been in my bed a good 10 minutes last night before I heard my mother shouting me and telling me there was an amazing sky and that I should take photos. So I got up and went down the lane wearing my pyjamas, slippers and my ski jacket. Then we decided we could get better photos if we got in the car and chased the sunset over the hill. Got this from the A915 at Wester Newburn, looking North-west. Beautiful!

Toadally awesome

My mum told me there is a friendly toad in the garden of the holiday cottage that she cleans. It apparently kept trying to get into the house while she was cleaning it. We went over there early to take some photos and this is what I got...

Storms in July?!

Storm/rain clouds over Leven last night. Looked very ominous. Almost felt as though a tornado was going to drop down from the cloud base at any moment!! At least I would have gotten an epic photo if it had!!

Shy

Took a photo of this fella while I was out walking the dog. They were all eyeing me suspiciously and with great interest (as cows do) as I walked past so I took out my camera and snapped this. About 3 seconds after I took this they all got jumpy and darted off up the field.

Intro

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Set this up to add all my wildlife/photographyness to.

Watch this space!

Sarah Eve xo