Today we woke up for breakfast at 7:15am and left basecamp promptly at 8:45am to then walk for an 1 hour and a half through Glen Rosa. On our way to the site of Bracken Bashing, we spotted 3 types of heather.
On the edge of the forest Lucy picked our brains on our tracking knowledge with some fir cones, we identified one of the cones being stripped by a finch (most likely Chaffinch) and one of them nibbled by a red squirrel. After nibbling on some Wood Sorrel (which tasted acidic, like grapes. Tasty!) and Wood Sage, we braved the gale force winds and headed towards the conservation site where we met Kate from the Arran Rangers Service. Briefed on our mission and kitted with protective gloves, we entered the regeneration site. Fighting through bracken shoulder high we rescued the poor young trees- Oak, Hazel and Arran Whitebeam (extremely rare). Finishing in record time just before the rain hit us, we said goodbye to Kate. To our delight, she rewarded us with chocolate bunnies which made us all very happy!
We got back to basecamp and tucked into a lovely Thai Green curry cooked incredibly well by the team, however unable to locate the ladle for the sauce we resorted to a mug. After the mystery eyelash in the eye palaver, we gave our presentations. Informative and creative with lots of drama, costume and charades, keeping us all engaged and enetertained the John Muir presentations were complete!
Emma and Izzy :)
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