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This was a challenge, we had already failed twice in our attempt
to reach the big waterfall. It was a beautiful day and we
deserved better luck this time. There were ten explorers:
Alexander, Allan, Amie, Benjamin, Chloe, JD, John Donaldson,
Lewis, Lucy and Thomas, and four adults, Philippa and John
Dove, Pamela and John Mac., with Bruce as the expedition dog.
We set off from the Arivegaig Bridge with a good map and high
hopes and walked along the shore and then up the hill through
the old wood, looking at some coppiced and pollarded trees
on the way. We stopped a the top of the hill on the site of
an old croft and had a biscuit and looked under a tin sheet
which only had ants, before dragging ourselves up to the top
of the hill. We saw a lot of interesting things on the way
but were rather disappointed to find that in spite of our
best intentions, we were still too far from the waterfall.
The day was warm and the hill steep and there was only one
vote for carrying on to the waterfall, so back we came, looking
around the rock pools on the way back.
One compensation was the reopening of the Pantry and everyone
settled down quietly to eat and draw.
John
Dye
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