The Wigtownshire Ramblers

I'd usually be blogging Saturdays walk today.
Unfortunately yesterdays walk was cancelled.

I've therefore created a little Wigtownshire Ramblers Photo Story from some of my (in my opinion anyway) more scenic pictures.
It's on YouTube here.
The Wigtownshire Ramblers

Mayfly at Mochrum

Friday the 24th of April 2009.
It was a dull and hazy day on Mochrum Loch today.
That made no difference to the Mayfly.They just kept coming on up from the loch and landing on my car.
The bottom one must have had an early accident,it's had two of it's three tail appendages shortened.

Cylindroiulus punctatus (Millipede)

Walking through Doonhill Woods,i spotted what looked like a worm on a discarded apple core.
On further inspection i realised it was some sort of millipede.

My book says it's a cylindrosulus punctatus,but there are more internet hits for cylindroiulus punctatus and from more scientific sources,so i'll go with that.
Looks a different colour from the one in my book though.

A Miscellany of Galloway

A glimpse at a few of the delightful places within a few miles of my home in South West Scotland.
This and the Kirkcudbright Lifeboat clips have seen the light of day before-I thought it time for them to be resurrected.

RNLI-Kirkcudbright Lifeboat Naming Ceremony-Sheila Stenhouse

Clips from the launch and naming ceremony of the Kirkcudbright Lifeboat,the Atlantic 85-Sheila Stenhouse back in October 2007.

RNLI-Kirkcudbright Lifeboat Launch Day Pictures

October 2007.Pictures taken at Kirkcudbright at the 'Handing Over and Naming'ceremony of the new Atlantic 85 Lifeboat the Sheila Stenhouse.

RNLI-Kirkcudbright Lifeboat Atlantic 85 Sheila Stenhouse

Named the Sheila Stenhouse,the Atlantic 85,Kirkcudbrights new state of the art lifeboat going through its paces on it's launch day Saturday the 13th of October 2007. Dedicated to all lifeboatmen everywhere.