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<\/a><\/p>\n Today I took the train from Carsdyke to Gourock while Bob took the car across the Clyde via the Erskine bridge. I got to take the Kilcreggan ferry, a small pedestrian ferry across to the Roseneath Peninsula.
\nThere were not many passengers but there were Eider Ducks on the water.<\/p>\n
The second half of the days walk was along the Gareloch. The road was busier and there were views of the Faslane Base. The rain got a bit heavier and after the welcome shore path across the top of Gareloch, we stopped at the Perch Cafe for some afternoon tea including some very tasty cakes.<\/p>\n From Psalm 147<\/p>\n God covers the sky with clouds s<\/span>upplying the earth with rain <\/span>and making grass grow<\/span>S<\/a>)” data-cr=”#cen-NIV-16360S” style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”><\/span> <\/span>on the hills.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n JAL 05.07.2019<\/p>\n Day 82 of the End to End, Gourock to Garelochhead via Kilcreggan ferry.<\/p>\n 9 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day 82 of the End to End took me back to the Scotland I remember from holidays in my childhood. We would holiday in Scotland during the summer and I still have a journal I kept when I was 9 years old (it’s the oldest journal I still have). Grey sky, rain in varying amounts, … Continue reading “The Scotland I Remember”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nAt Kilcreggan I called in at the post office and also got a sausage roll as a snack before the serious walking. I walked along the coast road and admired a well known rock on the beach that has become a local landmark.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nBob parked at Garelochhead and walked back towards me. Meanwhile I had various adventures: a lot of caterpillars on nettles (maybe Peacock butterfly again), a cow in the middle of the road and two butterfly orchids on the roadside.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>We met on the road across the Peninsula on a very steep hill. We stopped for lunch at the Peaton Hill community nature reserve where it was good to have a sit down.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nIt was then only a short walk to Station Road where today’s walk ended. There was a drive to the Arrochar hotel which is beside Loch Long where we are staying. The rain continued to fall and the low cloud obscured the Loch views, more like a holiday in my childhood.<\/p>\n<\/a>The rain is a vital part of a cycle that makes the hills green and fills the lochs with water. The land is the land because of the rain.
\nGod grant a quiet night and a peaceful end. <\/b><\/p>\n