| This was an expedition into
unknown territory, we were trying to follow the old track
west towards Camas Inas. We got a good day for it and it was
a successful trip for everyone. We had six young explorers,
Benjamin, Caleb, Caulay, Fern, Rowan and Thomas, plus seven
helpers, Claire, Corinne, Howard, John Dove, Johnny, Pamela
and Philippa with Ellie and Honey to investigate interesting
smells.
We parked in the big forestry car/lorry park and had a quick
look at the old building in the trees before heading straight
up to the power line in a strip of land the forestry people
call the wayleave. The weather was fine and the ground was
dry and the brambles had yet to grow so it was a pleasure
walking west along a deer track under the power lines.
We carried on until we reached the top of the next rise, on
the way Thomas found an old glass insulator complete with
its galvanised hook and there was some lively discussion as
to how it could be safely dismantled without breaking the
glass.
I was looking for a belt of larch trees to give us an easy
walk up the hill and eventually we found one and were able
to climb right up to the old dyke which marked the top of
the Camus Torsa croft land. This was a very substantial structure
and worth seeing in its own right and we found a nice dry
spot and settled down for a Tunnock's break and a continuing
discussion about insulators.
Greatly refreshed, we continued along the dyke westwards and
it dipped down the hill giving us a fairly easy route back
to the wayleave. Once there I was looking to see a convenient
spot to go further downhill and find the old track. It was
one of the twins who found the track and we were able to follow
it for a long spell of easy walking.
Then we came to a great mass of fallen trees and everyone
had an active time climbing over, under and through the trees.
We were like ants in a game of spillikens. After the fallen
trees it got much clearer and we were soon back at the car
park, with enough time to go down and look at the shore before
returning to the Pantry.
John
Dye
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