The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • Wildlife & Nature

    The whirlpool of Corryvreckan

    July 7, 2012 /

    Between the islands of Jura and Scarba, a natural phenomenon of the most dangerous kind lies in wait for mariners - and you might hear it before you see it...

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    Bird’s foot trefoil

    August 2, 2014

    Looking for a fairy portal

    December 27, 2021

    The Fortingall Yew: symbol of eternity

    March 26, 2014
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Dunollie Castle in Oban Bay

    April 10, 2012 /

    From their high vantage point overlooking Oban Bay and the Firth of Lorn, the former occupants of Dunollie Castle must have scanned the horizon anxiously for Viking longships.

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    Kilmartin church and graveyard

    July 24, 2018

    Castle Coeffin: guarding a broken heart

    May 24, 2014

    Dunadd: behold the king!

    June 14, 2015

"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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