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Walk A gentle climb to Bonaly Reservoir Length 6 miles
Dogs on walk Archie, Gina, Finlay, Jerry, Martha, Solo, Tim,
Struan,
Talaidh
Those observant amongst you will notice a lot of dogs. A serious
miscount by me led to
Struan and Talaidh tagging along when I thought they would make
it up to eight. Umm
how come I have nine? Back to finger counting in the future I
think. We all squeezed in to
the car anyway, Talaidh taking the from passenger seat.
Travelling in style.
What may have been a little traumatic for Martha a couple of
months ago was nothing
today. She took in her stride, making sure she got a window
seat. To get Finlay in with his
car issues, meant Struan getting out first and then hopping back
in behind him. He should
not feel at all embarrassed by it. Archie sometimes has his
challenges although an empty
boot was easy enough for him today. Not so when it came to Solo
getting in. He needed a
lift up. And very unusually so too did Gina who needed a helping
hand to squeeze in
between Archie and Solo. Tim on the other hand almost blindly
leapt into the even smaller
space between them. And Jerry a little more gingerly found
himself some space on the
back seat.
Soon they all piled out again as we were ready to set off up the
rutted track leading to the
hills and the prize of Bonaly Reservoir. The sun was back and it
tried to heat the earth and
the air but the temperatures never rose much and were half
beaten back by the gusting
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We were partly sheltered by the old gnarled Scots Pine trees
running along beside the
track now with exposed stone. Scoured by the wet summer. Happy
dogs, several withmouths open wandered along the track. It rose
gently to a gate and out onto low
moorland of very long wiry grass. Waving in the wind in faded
colours suggesting and end
too summer is almost with us. Gina and Jerry bursting from the
grass as they scouted
around picking us traces of scents. Or more like Gina following
Jerry who was doing the
scent finding.
It was not only scents he was interested in. In a rather unusual
display of friendliness heput himself in the middle of creating the
fun. First trying to get Struan to play and then
picking up on Archie who had run into the grass and balls of
purple heather. Gina of course
was right behind him and Tim thrust his way through the heather
to also take part.
Martha watched the fun. One day she may join it. But for now she
as more than content
to tramp along the path with Solo and Finlay. Finlay setting a
good pace. Was he trying to
get to the reservoir all the sooner? Jerry did manage to get
Struan running and soonfound him running by him thundering along
like a horse. Jerry for once struggling to keep
up.
Glinting on the horizon Bonaly Reservoir called out to us. I had
a task to keep the dogs to
heel. Thankfully I managed to because hidden over the other side
of the grass banked dam
was a cyclist having a sit down by the water. He may have been
in it if I had not
restrained them.
He sat and watched as the dogs plunged into the reservoir with
water surging upward
sparkling with colour into the air like fractured rainbows.
Breaking his peace they dashed
and swam back and forth chasing the splash of stones. An
occasional excited back hitting
back from the trees.
All too soon for some of them we were back on the path and
making our way back towardthe shoulder of Harbour Hill and our
homeward journey. Archie not too upset to leap into
the deep heather which almost drowned Tim as Gina lay down to
taunt him looking like
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With the rolling hills ahead of us we began to gently drop down
toward the wider track.
Puffs of cloud drifting across the sky casting dark shadows in
the grass as they passed by.The track led us briskly back to the
trees and the rutted water scoured track back to the
car.
Nick
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