Fishing Camp in the Galloway Forest Park.

Hi Folks!

I'm hoping to get back over to one of the Galloway Hill Lochs in the next week or two to do a spot of fly fishing and do an over night camp.  If the Loch has trees I think I will take my Hammock, but of I decide to go to one in the hill I will be using a tent.  I expect to go on a Thursday afternoon and come back home Friday afternoon. 

More details to follow once I can confirm my dates.

John O Groats

Myself and my son Daniel

 

View Point

Looking towards Loch Broom

 

Map and Compass

Map & Compass



A quick look at the Map and Compass I use when hiking and the case I use to carry them.

This map is the waterproof version.

Case, Maps & Silva Compass.

Penny Stoves from energy drink cans.

Last year I started making some penny stoves. At first I started using coca cola cans to make them, but I soon found out that I preferred using the smaller energy drink cans and they worked well.  They are very light and good to keep as  a backup.  I also used one during a power cut last winter and it worked great.  My preferred fuel for these stoves is Bio Ethanol, but other people prefer using Methylated Spirits.

 

 

A few pictures below to show you the finished stove.

Penny stove flame test

My Penny stove painted with some black stove paint.

I keep my penny stove in a small plastic container that I got in the local takeaway.
(I use a lid cut off from a tin of beans to use as a priming plate)






Penny Stove in the Crusader Stove.




 

Penny Stove  boiling some water in my Crusader Cook set.









 

 

Ullapool


A little bit of information on where I will be going on a family camping trip later this month. We will probably head back to Ullapool and camp at Broomfield Campsite.  This is a large campsite with great facilities and will make a perfect base for touring up the North West Coast of Scotland.



Ullapool is a small town of around 1,500 inhabitants in Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands. Despite its small size, it is the largest settlement for many miles around and a major tourist destination. 
From Ullapool you can get a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry over to Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides which is also known as the Western  Isles




 

OS grid reference NH125945

Reducing Weight in my Rucksack

I still use both of my brew kits, but I keep the smaller Alpkit one for Hikes and Solo over night trips.

Trangia Fuel Bottles



 

Camping Pillows

Trangia Cookset and the Trangia Mini

DD Travel Hammock/ Bivi

The DD Travel Hammock/ Bivi Set as a Bivi in my back Garden.

 

The DD Travel Hammock/ Bivi Set as a Bivi in my back Garden

Wee Hill of Craigmulloch, Early June

 

Early June Hill Walk on the way up the Wee Hill of Craigmulloch

 

Zoomed in picture of Loch Doon Castle from the Wee Hill of Craigmulloch.

 

A photograph of myself on walking up the Wee Hill of Craigmulloch.

 

 

My Sister Marina on the track heading up the Wee Hill of Craigmulloch.

Loch Doon













View of Loch Doon from my Campsite (June 2015)

Bushcraft

What a good few nights I had hanging in the hammock in the Galloway Forest Park.  You can see some of my gear below. 

Tarps and Hammocks

DD Travel Hammock/ Bivi

 

Exped travel Hammock  (My Big Sister) 



DD Tarp 3x3

 

 

DD Tarp 3x3

Rucksacks

Rucksacks

 

 

  

In here you will see the Rucksacks I use while out Wild Camping, Hiking and Fishing.

 

Lichfield Explorer 60+10 Litre

Karrimor Hot Earth 40 Litre

Karrimor - Jura Cool Mesh - 20 litre

 

Sleeping Bags

More Photographs Coming Soon!

In here you will see the sleeping bags and other gear that I use  at night when I'm out camping.

• Sleeping Bags

DD Jura 2 xl

Picture Coming Soon!
 

 

PipeDream 400

 

 

Eurohike 2 Season

Picture Coming Soon!

• Sleeping Bag Liners

Lifeventure Cotton Sleeper

 

 

 

• Sleeping Mats

Karrimor X-lite Inflate

 

 

Campri Self Inflating Mat

• Pillows

 

 Mammut Self Inflating Air Pillow

 

 

Vango Self Inflating Camping Pillow






The pack size difference of the two pillows above.

 

Cooking

Pots and Stoves

Firebox Stove

BCB Crusader Cook set



OptimusWeekend HE Cookpot

Trangia Triangle

Alpkit Titanium Myti-Mug

Trangia Cookset and Trangia Mini Cookset

Tents





Wild Country Zephyros One
 



Coleman deluxe 4 man tent
(I've not used this  one yet,  I will try it out on the next  family camping trip)




Marmot Limelight 2



 

Fishing

A few pictures from my fishing trips.

Unnamed Loch in North Uist




Brown Trout from an unnamed Loch in North Uist.

 

Penwhapple Reservoir Brown Trout.

 

Cornish Loch.
 

Loch Doon.

 

Loch Goosie.
 

Afton Reservoir.
 

Loch Macaterick
 

Loch Braden.

Loch Braden Brown trout.