A River Tay long weekend 26 - 28/05/18

The bank holiday weekend started for us on Saturday morning with a run through the quiet roads of Fife on the Big Yam and the Street Triple, trying to stay away from an expected mega busy A9 and Perth traffic. Saturday nights plan was to have a our tea and few beers listening to the music at the Big Tay Out in the Taybank Dunkeld beer garden, it must have been more of a day thing as it had petered out by the time we arrived, never mind, a visit to the P.A ended up a much better night.
Sunday dinner time we headed back to Dunkeld for a walk along the river since the sun was still shining bright.

The River Tay

Beer garden

The River Tay

Dunkeld

Thomas Telford's Bridge Dunkeld

Fisher folk in a boat

Lesley and Sitka enjoying the sunshine

Dunkeld Monkey Puzzle Tree

River Tay canoeists

A Monday bank holiday off and the sun still shining, this time we headed to Errol for the Taybank circular 5 mile walk, starting in Errol, down the farm track, onto the paths through the trees giving views over the River Tay to the hills between Wormit and Newburgh, the sandbanks with the names Carthagena and Sure as Death banks and of the stunning reed beds, the largest continuous bed of reeds in the UK, 15km of them along to Port Allen, and then open paths alongside oil seed rape and wheat crops. What a cracking day in all, stunning scenery and lots of wildlife.

Beautiful oil seed rape colours

The reed beds

Old farm buildings

The reed beds going on for Miles

Ducks taking off

A curious swan

The times, they have changed Bob

Port Allen