A walk to the Falls of Bruar
As my trekking shoes were wet from the walk of Saturday I couldn't attend to the climb to Ben Vrackie on Sunday, 30th of July. Instead, I decided to make a walk on nice paths and roads to the Falls of Bruar.Click any miniature photo to see a larger version (physical size varies between 102 and 340 kB).
I started my journey by following River Tilt
upstream.
The dukes of Atholl had built a view point
along the River Tilt. Unfortunately the view from that point is only about
thirty metres to both directions.
An interesting tree trunk.
An old overpass (for pedestrians only).
James, the 2nd Duke of Atholl,
built this Balvene Pillar on Tom na Croiche or Hangman's
Knoll in 1755 in memory of the last public hanging that took place on
this hill in 1630.
A view south-west from the
Balvene Pillar. The small grey blob in the left is the statue of
Hercules and under it is a part of the stone fence encircling the
Hercules Garden. The distant mist covered mountain top above the
statue is that of Schiehallion or the Fairy Mountain
(named because of the mists that often cover it).
A view north-west
from the Balvene Pillar.
A small forest between views of the two
previous photos. Behind the forest and the hill it stands on is
Old Blair (a village? of a couple of houses, an ex-inn, and
a farm).
From Old Blair I entered
a forest.
A small river (Banvie Burn?) runs through the
forest and near the place I came out of the forest is a small bridge
(surely infested by trolls or goblins).
From hillside above the bridge there is a
nice view along Glen Banvie. The hill rising on the right is Meall
Reamhar.
An another view on Glen Banvie. The
mountain in the background is(?) Beinn A'Chart.
A view from the other end of Glen Banvie
looking back. Thistle was starting to blossom. The highest mountain
in the background is Ben Vrackie (841 metres high), onto which some
of the summer school participants were just then ascending.
Entering the forest again. There is a
huge forest around Blair Castle - this part of the forest is called Glen
Banvie Wood.
A lot of fern was growing in the forest.
An another view over Glen Garry towards
Schiehallion.
Walking in the forest I heard birds of prey
screaming to each other over me. I managed to get a couple of photos of them
but, due to the limited capabilities of my camera, this is the best I got.
I blew up the bird so as to see it a bit better.
There was a little clearing in the forest.
There I saw some dragonflies and this interesting caterpillar with horns.
Again I enlarged the creature to see actually anything of it.
The Falls of Bruar. Finally I got there but
didn't want to see them any closer. I have a mild acrophobia and the
almost vertical slopes of the gorge didn't appeal to me too much.
Clear Highland waters streaming down.
After the main falls there are numerous little
ones along half a kilometre of the stream.
A bridge going across the stream.
The same bridge from the other direction.
The edge of Baluain Wood and a house that has
seen its prime days long ago.
Approaching Blair Atholl again I
spotted some cows on the castle grounds.
The same cows seen a little closer.
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