Family Visit Outings - Part Two

Thursday the 30th of October.

It was a miserable morning and after a fairly uneventful run down Loch Ken (we didn't even catch sight of a red kite) we're back at one of my favourite places in Galloway.

I was here just a month ago and it's always been a favourite of Callum and Erin.

Galloway Wildlife Park September Visit

Here's a few pictures

After the wildlife park we paid our first ever visit to the Chocolate Factory

We're about five years too late for Callum and Erin, but we did buy a lot of chocolate.

Heading back home we stopped at the Galloway Lodge Cafe in Gatehouse of Fleet for refreshments and some gift shopping.

Back along the A75, we stopped for a walk at Caskiel Point on the Kirkmabreck Quarry Quay.

Thanks to Canmore for this picture.

There was a surge of excitement and a short flurry of activity a couple of years ago when there was talk of the quay re-opening for the loading of timber. 

BBC May 2012

Haven't heard anything more since though.

Iron remnants of the industrial past.

(Safeticurb is a drainage system)

Finding a rusty old bearing we've created an artwork by placing it on a concrete 'clast'.

Beats Tracey Emin's bed in my book.

With Callum being well into music ( SOUNDCLOUD ), he and Erin got a great sound and rhythm going when rocking this corrugated iron roof.

Here endeth Family Visit Outings. 

It was great to see you guys, come back soon.

Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park

Feeling under the weather from my visit to the dentist and after seeing a friend's zoo pictures I felt like a visit to the wildlife park was overdue.

Here then are pictures and a video from a trip to the Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park on the 26th of September 2014

Previous visits to the park.

2010

2011

2012

Oriental Otter

Oriental Otter

PUDU - The worlds smallest deer

Meercat

Meercat

Meercats

Tortoise

Azara's Agouti

Mara - Patagonian Cavy

Blue and Yellow Macaw

Senegal Parrot

Asian Leopard Cat

Yellow Mongoose

Quail ?

Scottish Wildcat

Capybara

South American Tapir

African Serval Cat

Cotton - Top Tamarin

Great Grey Owl

Sarus Crane

Red Breasted Goose

Snowy Owl

Maned Wolf

Guanaco

Corsac Fox

European Owl

Ring Tailed Lemur

Wallaby

Red Panda

Eurasian Lynx 

Sorry my mistake, this is the Caracal Lynx

Here's a compilation video.

 YouTube

Filmed on the 26th of September 2014.

A few of the delightful animals at the Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park at Kirkcudbright in South West Scotland.

http://gallowaywildlife.org.uk/

The Red Panda were a little shy today.

The accompanying music is Mendelssohn's Concerto for violin, piano and orchestra in d minor - II, downloaded from archive.org and attributed to ONCLASSICAL by Stefano Micheletti from http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/046757.

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Music