{"id":282,"date":"2003-09-02T21:44:43","date_gmt":"2003-09-02T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2003\/09\/02\/gruinard-bay-pictures\/"},"modified":"2003-09-02T21:44:43","modified_gmt":"2003-09-02T21:44:43","slug":"gruinard-bay-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2003\/09\/02\/gruinard-bay-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Gruinard Bay pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally got round to downloading the pictures from my camera and uploading them here.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the reason we all made our way up to the village of Laide, Cat and Hen cutting their birthday cake:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/CatAndHenCutTheirCake_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/CatAndHenCutTheirCake_t.jpg\" title=\"Cat and Hen cutting their birthday cake\" alt=\"Cat and Hen cutting their birthday cake\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the view from the garden of the house we all stayed at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/ViewFromSandHouseGarden_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/ViewFromSandHouseGarden_t.jpg\" title=\"View from Sand House garden\" alt=\"View from Sand House garden across to Gruinard Island\"><\/a><br \/>\nBy the way, the island you can see so close to the coast is famous as a test site for anthrax as a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/1457035.stm\">biological weapon<\/a> in the &#8217;40s.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not linking to the website for the house because the owner was an extremely obnoxious man (vaguely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fawltysite.net\/\">Fawlty<\/a>-like) and I wouldn&#8217;t recommend the place.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe activities during the week included drinking, eating (courtesy of our amazing chef Shaggy), dancing, walking and a trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nts.org.uk\/web\/site\/home\/visit\/places\/Property.asp?PropID=10103&#038;NavPage=10103&#038;NavId=5122\">Inverewe Garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/HelenAndCuzCeilidhNight_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/HelenAndCuzCeilidhNight_t.jpg\" title=\"Hen and Cuz dancing on the Ceilidh night\" alt=\"Hen and Cuz dancing on the Ceilidh night\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/GruinardBay_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/GruinardBay_t.jpg\" title=\"View down to Gruinard Bay\" alt=\"View down a narrow valley with the sea visible at the end\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/WaterfallNG959887_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/WaterfallNG959887_t.jpg\" title=\"Waterfall, near grid ref NG959887\" alt=\"Picture of a waterfall\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/DeerNearNG881868_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/DeerNearNG881868_t.jpg\" title=\"Spot the deer\" alt=\"A deer at one side of a dirt track, just in front of a wood\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/InvereweGardens_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/GruinardBay2003\/InvereweGardens_t.jpg\" title=\"Colourful plants at Inverewe Garden\" alt=\"Lots of colourful trees and other plants, with a path winding through them\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally got round to downloading the pictures from my camera and uploading them here. Here&#8217;s the reason we all made our way up to the village of Laide, Cat and Hen cutting their birthday cake: Here&#8217;s the view from the garden of the house we all stayed at: By the way, the island you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}