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Wee Wilds Guest house & glamping pods at Glentruim, near Newtonmore, in the Cairngorms National Park. Your highland base for exploring the Scottish Highlands.

The Falls of Truim were in a lazy mood when I passed. After a dry spell the water pools up dark and glassy between the r...
17/10/2026

The Falls of Truim were in a lazy mood when I passed. After a dry spell the water pools up dark and glassy between the rocks and barely seems to move at all. A few days of proper rain and it's a proper tumble again, but I quite like it like this too.

This fella marched up the track and parked himself about a foot from the camera, head tilted like he was trying to make ...
16/10/2026

This fella marched up the track and parked himself about a foot from the camera, head tilted like he was trying to make out what I was. No bread, no fuss, just a very direct duck deciding whether I was worth his time. He wandered off eventually, none the wiser.

Set the alarm for an early walk round Uath Lochans this morning, which is only a short drive from WEE WiLDS. The sky did...
15/10/2026

Set the alarm for an early walk round Uath Lochans this morning, which is only a short drive from WEE WiLDS. The sky did its pink thing over the water, Furgus found every puddle on the way round and then sat on a bench looking like he'd been hard done by, and on the way back I spotted a red mushroom and ended up flat on my front in the moss to get the shot from underneath. Three photos and one damp pair of trousers. If you're staying with us and fancy a morning out there, ask and I'll point you to the path.

Spotted this fly agaric coming up through the pine needles. It's the toadstool from every fairy tale you were ever read,...
14/10/2026

Spotted this fly agaric coming up through the pine needles. It's the toadstool from every fairy tale you were ever read, and it looks almost too perfect to be real. Worth remembering it's properly poisonous though, so it's one for looking at rather than picking.

Furgus and I have been doing the same loop up to the viewpoint at Glentruim most days this week, part run, part walk, de...
13/10/2026

Furgus and I have been doing the same loop up to the viewpoint at Glentruim most days this week, part run, part walk, depending on who's in charge. Heavy grey cloud one morning, a thin line of sun creeping under it the next, and a pair of red mushrooms in the moss that look like they've been polished. Probably a brittlegill, and either way they're staying where they are. The stick, on the other hand, came home with us.

There's always one tree that turns before the others are ready. This beech has gone full copper while the pines and ever...
12/10/2026

There's always one tree that turns before the others are ready. This beech has gone full copper while the pines and everything else around it stay resolutely green. The dry stone wall follows the track off into the trees, same as ever.

You could walk right past all this at head height and never notice. It's only when you crouch down into the blaeberry th...
10/10/2026

You could walk right past all this at head height and never notice. It's only when you crouch down into the blaeberry that the colour hits you, reds and oranges packed in tight with the moss glowing away underneath. The hills had turned grey and moody behind, but the ground was having none of it.

Got up to the cairn and Furgus wasted no time finding the sheltered side of it. His companion for the day came over to s...
09/10/2026

Got up to the cairn and Furgus wasted no time finding the sheltered side of it. His companion for the day came over to see what he'd found. The view stretching out behind them was worth the walk up, not that either of them looked twice at it.

The loch had gone completely flat by the time I came past, the sort of stillness that gives you the whole sky twice over...
07/10/2026

The loch had gone completely flat by the time I came past, the sort of stillness that gives you the whole sky twice over. I stood in the gap between the trees for a bit longer than I meant to, then left it to it. Some views don't need anything doing to them.

Furgus and I headed over to Uath Lochans after dinner, mostly to walk off the plate of food, and ended up stopping every...
06/10/2026

Furgus and I headed over to Uath Lochans after dinner, mostly to walk off the plate of food, and ended up stopping every few yards. The lochans were dead calm and the pines were sitting on the water as clearly as they stood on the bank. Then Furgus decided it was swimming weather, which it wasn't, and the whole reflection wobbled off. By the time we turned for home the sky had gone yellow behind the trees and the path was more or less a guess. He slept well.

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