Hobbies Other Than Caving

[mrodoc]

Pitlamp: Stuart?s photo is Loch Coruisk and the Cuillin of Skye from Sgurr na Stri.

Now I look at again I can see Bhasteir Tooth. Just for the hell of it here is a close view of the tooth from the other side on an ascent in early January of Brac na Frithe (a few years ago).

 

[Pitlamp]

Pitlamp: Stuart?s photo is Loch Coruisk and the Cuillin of Skye from Sgurr na Stri.

Thanks - it's a fine picture!

 

[yrammy]

Wildlife photography for me , oh and today...knitting.

 

[Fulk]

Nice pictures, yrammy; I particularly like the kingfisher one ? how did you take it?

 

[Jenny P]

The cuckoo and the robin is a fabulous picture.

 

[yrammy]

Fulk it was taken at RSPB Old Moor near Barnsley from a public hide. That year was a bumper one for kingfishers and they could come to a perch close by daily.  I go often during normal times and was there on a day when the light was perfect.

 

[droid]

Had one perch on the end of my fishing rod once.

 

[T pot 2]

A perch on the end of your rod, happy days. 😉

 

[Robert Scott]

Pitlamp: Stuart?s photo is Loch Coruisk and the Cuillin of Skye from Sgurr na Stri.

Thanks - it's a fine picture!

Coruisk is sometime translated as " "Cauldron of Waters"" but it is probably better referred to as the Pot of Water.

 

[mikem]

Could just be corrie of water...

 

[mrodoc]

It is a beautiful location whatever!

 

[Stuart France]

Sorry not to have replied earlier but I've been busy of late.  Yes really.  My earlier photo is the main Cuillin ridge from Sgurr na Stri as someone said.  Skye is a very dramatic place, and varied too, with unusual coastal walks and geology, and archaeology and plant life and ... and the Talisker distillery.  Several MBA bothies plus the BMC/MCS hut at Glenbrittle or the JMCS hut at Coruisk.  I've stayed in them all over the years.  Spent many weeks on the island.  Unquestionably the 'best' mountains in the Scotland (well my opinion anyway).

Another classic shot is the main ridge rising straight out of the sea at Elgol, which together with the view of Sgurr nan Gillean from the bridge by Sligaghan Inn characterizes these mountains.  Sgurr na Stri is the dark coloured conical hill above the righthand fishing boat in the photo attached here.

There are also short but pretty marble caves near Elgol for a day off from the hills.  See Google Images.

 

[mrodoc]

A beautiful area and to steer back towards caves  here is a photo taken in Spar Cave near Elgol.

 

[pwhole]

I'm generally furtling around my local woods in Sheffield, still trying to prove the existence of something or other 

 

[cavemanmike]

Found this in a quary

 

[Duck ditch]

Interesting.
These were found near Wensley. In wensleydale

 

[paull]

Glamour photographer but cant do that either at the moment  :thumbsdown:

 

[Duck ditch]

Uninteresting.

This was found above Grimwith Reservoir
Any geologists out there want to tell me what the fossils are? How old etc.

 

[Pitlamp]

Looks like a bit of the stem of a tree fern, either from one of the sandstones in the Yoredales or from the Grassington Grit (a.k.a. Millstone Grit). So lower Carboniferous in age. But never easy to tell just from a photograph. Langcliffe might be able to give you a better answer if he sees this.

 

[MJenkinson]

tree fern, bark?