So we are advised to get an hours exercise during lock down, travel ban most likely means walk so..here's mine, no rod was lifted during this activity.
5 mins from house and the much neglected River Allander, to my knowledge no one fishes it and I don't blame them but its the best I can find in a lock down, I have fished here as a kid and shot ducks from the opposite bank, fairly unsuccessfully on both counts, no idea if there are even trout in these stretches, never seen one, but with time on my hands I explored further than before..
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The river is mostly shallow with few places for a trout to hide but I came across this bit, well hidden in plain sight, much deeper here and possibly worth investigating at a later date.....
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The Allander runs into the Kelvin, a salmon river of no great reputation, the debris left from the floods is pretty much everywhere, this presumably washes down from somewhere, and the sheer amount is mind boggling, this is just one corner, there are hundreds all the way along the river, thousands of plastic bottles, counted maybe 30 footballs? not sure where you would start with that.
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Today's interesting object.....
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And so to higher ground, an old lime mine, historians reckon Roman, its within a days cart haul to the Antonine wall, they needed the lie to build it apparently, goes in quite far, and offers you a good soaking if your slow jumping across to get in.
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I took this one from nearby, if my photography was clearer you would just be able to see Glasgow in the distance, and where the Antonine wall ran on the lower nearer horizon, BUT I only noticed when I uploaded the pic that right in the foreground is a little bit of history, completely accidental, these are all over the area, bomb holes from the second world war, this whole area was a false dockyard, lit at night to trick German bombers into thinking it was Glasgow dock yard at Clydebank...over to the right in the pic, there is an air raid shelter at the top of the hill, presumably some poor git had to switch on the lights and run to that quick style?
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So that was my afternoon, got shin splints now, bit of the local surrounds although maybe I should have planned it to be a bit more interesting..maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
Be good to see others, all it takes is a walk with a camera.
5 mins from house and the much neglected River Allander, to my knowledge no one fishes it and I don't blame them but its the best I can find in a lock down, I have fished here as a kid and shot ducks from the opposite bank, fairly unsuccessfully on both counts, no idea if there are even trout in these stretches, never seen one, but with time on my hands I explored further than before..
The river is mostly shallow with few places for a trout to hide but I came across this bit, well hidden in plain sight, much deeper here and possibly worth investigating at a later date.....
The Allander runs into the Kelvin, a salmon river of no great reputation, the debris left from the floods is pretty much everywhere, this presumably washes down from somewhere, and the sheer amount is mind boggling, this is just one corner, there are hundreds all the way along the river, thousands of plastic bottles, counted maybe 30 footballs? not sure where you would start with that.
Today's interesting object.....
And so to higher ground, an old lime mine, historians reckon Roman, its within a days cart haul to the Antonine wall, they needed the lie to build it apparently, goes in quite far, and offers you a good soaking if your slow jumping across to get in.
I took this one from nearby, if my photography was clearer you would just be able to see Glasgow in the distance, and where the Antonine wall ran on the lower nearer horizon, BUT I only noticed when I uploaded the pic that right in the foreground is a little bit of history, completely accidental, these are all over the area, bomb holes from the second world war, this whole area was a false dockyard, lit at night to trick German bombers into thinking it was Glasgow dock yard at Clydebank...over to the right in the pic, there is an air raid shelter at the top of the hill, presumably some poor git had to switch on the lights and run to that quick style?
So that was my afternoon, got shin splints now, bit of the local surrounds although maybe I should have planned it to be a bit more interesting..maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
Be good to see others, all it takes is a walk with a camera.
