My friends live in Roseisle, a small hamlet set in a lovely pine forest alongside a beautiful sandy beach. We decide to have a quiet morning after yesterday's big trip. The whole
area was drained by Thomas Telford to create the Spynie Canal as the culmination of attempts to drain Loch Spynie (which survives as a small loch). The work took placebetween 1808 and 1811. The unprecedented floods of 1829 caused considerable damage and subsequently dykes were thrown up along the canal's banks.
My friends are thus frustrated in their gardening attempts by sand just a few feet below the poor soil.
Here are some pictures from our walk.
Scary!
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