Bladnoch Distillery

Pond Skaters by the River Bladnoch

There's a path goes north from the Bladnoch Distillery through a nice plantation. It runs alongside the River Bladnoch. It also has running to the opposite side of the path a sluice/lade, now mostly very slow running water. As I walked along I saw a lot of movement on the water surface, so I took this short video. As well as the pond skaters, I'm not sure, but perhaps the smaller creatures are water boatmen. This was the only video I took of them, but as I walked further up the river I came across multitudes both in the lade and in the river. Today must have been their day.
The accompanying music I downloaded from and is an excerpt from an instrumental called 'Summer's Coming' by Dexter Britain.

Dumfries and Galloway Relay for Life

Dumfries and Galloway Relay for Life, a 24-hour event of friends, family and colleagues teaming up in the fight against cancer. Bladnoch Park, Wigtown 11am Saturday 6th July - 11am Sunday 7th July, 2013. Raising money and awareness for Cancer Research UK. Working towards the day when all cancers are cured.

Galloway Beeching

Galloway historian Alistair Livingston discusses the closure of railways in Galloway which followed the 1963 Beeching Report.