22 May: The Fossil Tree, Burg, Mull

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.

Coffin rests

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

Another big unidentified bird

 

A Harry Potterish grove of trees

Wild garlic

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

Another memorial on an iron age fort

More amazing shapes:

The ladder to the beach

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.

and so back again

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