Lunan Bay

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In general, lacking high pointy mountains, Angus always strikes me as one of the less dramatic parts of the country. However, I’ve visited the Lunan Bay area a few times and it makes a good escape for an afternoon.

There’s quite a nice beach…

  • Pebbles amongst sand
  • Decaying lump of tree bark on sand
  • A small floral life-form amongst the pebbles and sand.
  • Signs on a shed on the weay to Lunan Bay beach
  • Sweeping leading lines – where the Lunan Water meets the sea
  • Beach details: dead tree trunks/branches embedded in the sand, pointing at a hut amongst the dunes.

and the ruins of Red Castle stand out stark sandstone against blue skies – ideal with high-flying cirrus cloud in the background.

  • Pleasantly contrasty light illuminating the castle ruins, against a dramatic cloudy sky.
  • Pleasantly contrasty light illuminating the castle ruins, against a dramatic cloudy sky.
  • Quite an impressive ruined castle atop a small hill.
  • Mouth of the Lunan Water outflow through the beach below Red Castle.

It also looks quite good from the air.

  • Red Castle, Lunan Bay
  • Red Castle, Lunan Bay
  • Floor plans
  • Lunan Water
  • Estuary
  • Red Castle, Lunan Bay

And finally, I’m experimenting with a different art form – composite overlays, controlling visual information by selectively retaining structures. Essence of Lunan in one.

Composite: various aspects of an afternoon spent at Lunan Bay blended together.

Glen Clova

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A couple of years ago, a photo-friend and I spent a happy afternoon exploring Corrie Fee in Angus; I remembered emerging from the trees in an impressive bowl of a glacial corrie. In August, I sought to repeat the experience, starting from the carpark nearby, but in my haste to get off the ghastly Forestry Commission track (more like a hard gravel road ploughed through the forestry, complete with yellow metal gantries), I wound up taking a different path. It also emerges from the trees into a bowl of a glacial corrie, but felt different and I couldn’t work out whether it was the wrong exit from the woods or what.

Came home and checked the geotagged images to find it was not Corre Fee but Glen Clova instead. That would explain a lot of things! And unsurprisingly, I now use ViewRanger to navigate whilst hiking.

Still, a couple of hours bumbling around in the grass finding interesting photos in a dramatic bit of landscape on a moody afternoon… Can’t complain.

As I was stumbling around in the foot of the glen, I stumbled across this lovely little burn tumbling its way through the hillside:

The surrounding rocks are quite dramatic – I was amazed at the green and purple hues of moss and primitive plants growing on the crags around

And much as I know the forestry is entirely artificial now, it still drapes over the landscape like a cloak.

West Woods of Ethie

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My friend Tom and I went for a stroll in the West Woods of Ethie in Angus. Not a woodland I’d encountered before, but it was quite magical in some ways – quite conscious of lurching from one clearing to another, surrounded by the characteristic shapes of beech trees in their green and yellow-orange autumn plumage.

For a slightly more immersive view of the woods… click this and wait a while 🙂

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Corrie Fee

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It seems like ages ago now – but back in April, a friend took me for a walk up Corrie Fee near Glen Clova. It was the first time I’ve been there, and didn’t know exactly what to expect; the first stretch through the forestry was pleasant (once the weather made its mind up what to fling at us), but when the view opened-out into a massive wide vista at the foot of a corrie, complete with glacial morraine hillocks, it was wonderful.