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Hi blog readers, we've been away for a while, went to Cavtat (pronounced Tsavtat) in Croatia. Bought a new camera to take with us-one of these tiny, point & shoot affairs which was great, but it's been proving very difficult to download and post the pics here.
Possibly too many pixels?

Anyway, try this link   www.flickr.com/photos/jamslife/sets

BTW, any tips on quicker up/downloading would be appreciated. Maybe a more up to date pc might be the answer.

Croatia is a beautiful place and we'd highly recommend it.

Sunday night sunset

 Reminder of the w/end weather as it hasn't stopped raining since Monday.

 Probably an exaggeration but it seems like it!

At least the wind has calmed down.

Riding in the woods

 Autumn colours showing

 Peaty water after the rain - no heatwave up here.

 Andy poses for the new camera,

Margot hurtling down "the muddy path". Good job there's no sound.........

Indian summer

 Mellon Udrigle beach, Beinn Ghobloch to the right,

looking north to Assynt & Sutherland

 Gruinard bay on a particularly, low tide,

Inveranvie river snaking out across the beach.

September beauties

Laide woods scores as a great place to study fungi

Sea trip

 We took to the water again this afternoon, paddled over to Badachro, round Eilean Horrisdale & back to the harbour. The dolphin pair joined us twice during the trip - how lucky we are to get so close to them. We also saw an otter, eating a fish he'd caught.

 Outside the Shieling a couple of days ago.

Amazing clouds.

Mountain Bike Day at Red Rocks

On Sunday the school took the Minibus & trailer over to the East coast to the Red Rocks Mountain Bike Trails. We had sunshine all day and did most of the easier routes. green & blue, graded like ski runs.

We have just bought a secondhand mountain bike from one of the teacher at the school so it was Andy's first outing on it.

The group have a rest after the first hours and then we push on to the top with great views over to the Moray Firth and the Nairn coastline

The last few runs were on a Orange route which had sweeping banked bends and really big humps which you could get airborne off, if you were not too careful. Home to a wet day in Gairloch so we were in the right place today.