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<\/a>\nAt Loch Fleet we sat on the same seat we’d sat on in 2003 and ate our picnic. It was about high tide so the Loch was quiet. There were a small number of Eider, Widgeon, Herons, Oystercatchers and a couple of Curlew. After a rest of about half an hour I walked on round the Loch. In total I saw 7 common seals; a couple doing a showing off balancing thing but most just bobbing in the still water.<\/p>\n
From Revelation chapter 8 Even in heaven silence is valued. To sit by Loch Fleet today in silence, the water like a still mirror, is to mirror the activities of heaven. We heard on the news of places in the North of England where recent flooding is causing problems and we think of them. Water can do a lot of damage. We pray for those trying to sort out the mess.<\/p>\n God grant a quiet night and a peaceful end.<\/b><\/p>\n JAL 01.08.2019 It’s day 106 of the End to End and rather than biblical interpretation I’m doing natural history. The Common Seal is more common looking than the Grey Seal, who has the large nosed look, so it’s common seals we see today at Loch Fleet, an RSPB nature reserve. To get there its three to four … Continue reading “The seven seals”<\/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-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/lejogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nAs I approached the junction with the A9 I saw a small John O’Groats Trail sign on a fence post. I’d not been looking forward to the main road, so decided that the John O’Groats Trail was worth a try. We’d looked at the website and I got the map yesterday in Tain. In places it provides off road alternatives to the A9 route. However, they are not all well marked or maintained. I’d no idea what this part would be like. It turned out to be a section of the old Light Railway route now overgrown. In some places the bracken was chest high and it seemed more like swimming through foliage than walking, but mostly it was OK and certainly better than the A9. I emerged from the path at the southern end of The Mound. Bob met me and we walked back to the car on the north side. He’d been looking at a bit of tomorrow’s route, also on the John O’Groats Trail.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nWhen he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nDay 106 of the End to End, Dornoch to The Mound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"