At 8 a.m. when the alarm woke me it did not look like a day when I wanted to tackle the next section of the Dava Way - the first 24 miles of the 95 mile Moray Loop. But my walk buddy announced she would be picking me up at 09.10 regardless! She drove us to Edinkillie, where we had ended our first 7 mile stretch, and off we went, with Jet, the gun dog, sniffing out pheasants already in the car park. This stretch took us over the north Dava Moor, with long straight runs of good quality track through a wilderness of peat bogs and moorland. It also passes by "Halfway Hut", containing various informative pieces of signage, solar-powered lighting, a Visitors' Book, and Oh Joy! - a large tin of Quality Street chocolates, left by a generous benefactor for those who pass by, to help themselves. The other feature is the old ruins of a croft where once lived a lady who had her orders delivered by the engine driver dropping her parcels out of his cab as the train came near the croft. He would blow the whistle, and her Collie, Jess, was trained to run down to the track, and return with the package - an early example of "Shop and Drop"? Today's section was a relatively straightforward 6.4 miles...
At 8 a.m. when the alarm woke me it did not look like a day when I wanted to tackle the next section of the Dava Way - the first 24 miles of the 95 mile Moray Loop. But my walk buddy announced she would be picking me up at 09.10 regardless! She drove us to Edinkillie, where we had ended our first 7 mile stretch, and off we went, with Jet, the gun dog, sniffing out pheasants already in the car park…
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