{"id":8189,"date":"2025-12-27T20:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/?page_id=8189"},"modified":"2025-12-27T20:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:24:45","slug":"loch-morie-25-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/?page_id=8189","title":{"rendered":"Loch Morie 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Thursday\u00a0 25<sup>th<\/sup> December 2025<br \/><br \/>\r\nAnne and I went for a Christmas Day walk with Mairi and Graham (4.1 miles).<br \/><\/span><br \/>We have done this walk often. We had Mairi and Graham with us for a lovely Christmas Day. After a huge and delicious lunch prepared my wee wife we went for a walk. The day was dull with the cloud low down but no frost, still very cold.<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/leafletjs\/leaflet.css\" \/>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/leafletjs\/leaflet.js\"><\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/leafletjs\/GPX.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"map\" style=\"width: 80%; height: 500px; margin: auto; z-index: 2;\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<script>\r\nvar map = new L.Map('map', {center: new L.LatLng(57.738187, -4.420180), zoom: 14});\r\nvar osm = new L.TileLayer('https:\/\/tile.thunderforest.com\/landscape\/{z}\/{x}\/{y}.png?apikey=b529a263981b4f4297627573df1e6e27', {attribution: 'Map data &copy; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thunderforest.com\">Thunderforest<\/a>', maxZoom: 18});\r\nvar track = new L.GPX(\"\/\/hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/2025-12-25_LochMorie\/Track_2025-12-25 160514.gpx\", {async: true, color: 'red', opacity: 0.8, weight: 3});\r\nmap.addLayer(track);\r\nmap.addLayer(osm);\r\nmap.addControl(new L.Control.Layers({}, {'GPX':track}));\r\nmap.addControl(new L.control.scale({metric: false}));\r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n<br \/><br \/>I drove us up the road to Ballavoulen in my old Ford Fusion. Graham took most of the photos.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/2025-12-25_LochMorie\/WhatsApp Image 2025-12-26 at 19.54.59 (5).jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>Then we headed up the track to Loch Morie, leaving the car at about 2.35. There has been a huge amount of forestry work going on and the track was terribly muddy and lined with piles of logs. <br \/><br \/>Arriving at the loch.<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/2025-12-25_LochMorie\/WhatsApp Image 2025-12-26 at 19.54.59.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>The next two photos are mine, hence the sloping horizon!<br \/><br \/>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/2025-12-25_LochMorie\/IMG_20251225_152049591.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/2025-12-25_LochMorie\/IMG_20251225_152113075.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>Graham has good long arms for taking a &#8216;selfie&#8217;.<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/2025-12-25_LochMorie\/WhatsApp Image 2025-12-26 at 19.54.59 (1).jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/><br \/>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/2025-12-25_LochMorie\/WhatsApp Image 2025-12-26 at 19.54.59 (2).jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/><br \/>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hferrier.co.uk\/personal\/2025-12-25_LochMorie\/WhatsApp Image 2025-12-26 at 19.54.59 (3).jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>We did not stay long at the loch as it was cold and the light was fading. We arrived back at the car at 4.05. A lovely way to pass Christmas Afternoon. We got King Charles&#8217; Christmas Message on catch up TV.<br \/><br \/>God bless you all on this Christmas day.<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday\u00a0 25th December 2025 Anne and I went for a Christmas Day walk with Mairi and Graham (4.1 miles).We have done this walk often. We had Mairi and Graham with us for a lovely Christmas Day. 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