Tuesday 14 August 2012

22 May: The Fossil Tree, Burg, Mull

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I did another long walk, this time on the flat.  To the Fossil Tree and back.  It was quite a long and tortuous drive, with gates, to the parking place.  I get extra exercise with gates.  It is a there and back again walk.

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007 For the first time in days I had a good signal to make phone calls!

008 Another big unidentified bird

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A Harry Potterish grove of trees

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014 Wild garlic

016 A hostel – I thought I was nearly there, but was wrong.

017 Another memorial on an iron age fort

More amazing shapes:

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023 The ladder to the beach

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025 THE TREE

It was discovered in 1819 by Scottish geological cartographer, John MacCulloch.   Reputed to be a  conifer tree, engulfed in molten lava  50 million years ago.

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and so back again

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I stayed the night roughing it at the bottom of Ben More again.

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