Cycling to Bo'ness

While this post is entitled "cycling to Bo'ness - the intention was to cycle along the Forth and Clyde Canal to Edinburgh - Needless to say I got lost - completely.

This didn't help either.
After cycling for many miles along the oil refinery in Grangemouth I came to Bo'ness.

Where I found the Railway station with all its treasures...

...and nature along the railway lines.

I found a monkey smoking a big Cuban cigar.

Great views, bit clouds, a summer thunderstorm...

a family of ugly ducklings...

and impressive skies

Loved cycling up and down the rolling paths - wet and shiny from the summer rain.

Cylcing on rolling hills - flying can't be better.


I had not planned to cycle to Grangemouth - no one plans to cycle for miles along an oil refinery - but on the the way back - from the distance -  it was almost beautiful.

Cycling through Ayrshire

Natural history on the mantlepiece

Found yesterday at the Holy Loch (no, I didn't take the big crab - I was worried it may start to smell and it was just too big).

The Holy Loch

Finally, the sun came back today - at two in the afternoon I decidet to cycle to the station and to take the next train that would get me to the sea. I went to Gourock, took the ferry to Dunoon and cycled along the Holy Loch.  

 

Foxgloves in pink and white everywhere.

Need to look this up...

Two insects - I was about to take another sea pink picture - and then I looked closer and found the couple...

A brown crab (Cancer pagurus) - I think...

Back on the ferry.

Loch Lomond

Wir waren im Loch schwimmen - es ist schwer zu beschreiben -  so ein schwüler Tag, es ist düster und es regnet und man sieht die Feuchtigkeit über den Bäumen aufsteigen. Tropfen fallen auf die schwarze Wasseroberfläche direkt vor meiner Nase  und in der Ferne hört man ein Gewitter grummeln. Unheimlich und großartig gleichzeitig.