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Flounder
April 6th, 2014, 12:59 PM
Most days, Mugdock is a splendid walk through nature. Other days, its a wild, waterlogged, overgrown swamp, resentful of Mans' intrusion!

Just stick to the path...
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Oh, here's one of the old anti-aircraft battery whatsits.
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And the underground command centre.
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You shall not pass!
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Wooooooo!
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Dead by dawn! Dead by dawn!
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What's that across the loch?
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Let's get inside! We can play this "Summoning Deadites 101" reel to reel while we wait for sun-up!
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Lady Onogaro
April 6th, 2014, 01:50 PM
There's still a lot of beauty to it. And as far as waterlogged, swampy terrain, well, we in Louisiana know a bit about that. :)

Jeph
April 7th, 2014, 12:49 AM
It is no wonder that they shoot so many movies up there.

scrivelry
April 7th, 2014, 01:08 AM
Reminds me of home, despite their being an ocean between the two places. The anti aircraft thingum looks a lot older than it is...

snedwos
April 7th, 2014, 09:08 AM
There's still a lot of beauty to it. And as far as waterlogged, swampy terrain, well, we in Louisiana know a bit about that. :)

Also all the nasty things that squirm in the mud down your end. Those monstrous turtles, for example.

Cottonmouths are actually kind of pretty though.

scrivelry
April 8th, 2014, 08:13 AM
I remember you had some really good photos of the coast posted, I think on your blog, but when I went to show them to a friend yesterday I could not find them. :cry:

Flounder
April 8th, 2014, 11:48 AM
They're still there - http://flounders-mindthots.blogspot.com/2013/08/mindthotless-coastal-wanderings.html

Thanks for the compliment! They were taken with the bog standard camera on my phone, as I recall.

edit - here's an extra from those snaps, a monument to the Russian cruiser 'Varyag'. I think it was scuttled there, but can't remember what the circumstances were.

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scrivelry
April 8th, 2014, 03:24 PM
Thanks for the link! I looked on Wikipedia and it might have been this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Varyag_%281899%29) ship, which seems to have had a very interesting career, and been scrapped off Scotland after running aground.