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Lucy Wallace - arranwildwalks.com
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Mountain Leader, wildlife guide, otter groupie, I love nature, and I love science ♥️🦦🌳🪲🪼🌸🦉🦎🦈

Also a wannabe runner, thwarted cyclist, sometime rock climber, lapsed archaeologist.

The Isle of Arran is my home and I frequently crop up in other places too 😃.
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Slime mould! Fuligo candidans I think. 🤓
A white blob of sticky icky goo on a rotten log.
August 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Nice to see the Waverley as my ferry arrived in Brodick today (even if we did have to bob around in circles for 20 mins while we waited for her to come off the pier!).
A paddle steamer passing by in Brodick Bay with Goatfell in the background.
July 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Home after a busy few weeks working in Switzerland. It's been a blast but I am so happy to be back on Arran!
Descending from the summit of Pic Chaussy. Young people in sunhats walking away from the camera on a narrow alpine ridge path. A group on the Glacier at Glacier 3000. Patches of snow, ice and rock mirrored by a mixed sky of clouds and blue. A.selfie- shades and orange sunhat, with a mountain backdrop. The dark red pyramid of a black vanilla orchid.
July 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Beautiful walking today 💚🇨🇭
A typical alpine view- green meadow in the foreground. Then forest covered hills, with rocky peaks in the distance. A deep forested ravine.
July 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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A timeline cleanser from my evening stroll. 💦

#soundon
July 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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View from my bedroom window this evening! 🇨🇭
A view of an alpine hamlet, nestled in a deep valley, with a meadow, flanked by woods, chalets and rocky peaks up in the clouds.
July 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Travelling across Scotland today. Made it to Glasgow where I'm waiting for a bus. Absolute chaos at Buchanan bus station, but this is now a stan account for the brave young woman who is yelling out bus and stand numbers at the top of her lungs.
View of Arran from the ferry this morning. Mountains on the horizon, fluffy white clouds strewn accross blue skies and blue sea too.
July 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Absolutely love alder. A lone surviving alder in Glen Rosa was the inspiration behind my logo. It's now on its last legs, but happily, grazing has been reduced just in time for saplings to spring up around it. I hope that in the future, these young trees will help restore life to the Rosa Burn.
July 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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My other contribution this week is some lovely wild thyme, also in the Pentlands.
#wildflowerhour
A cushion of tiny purple flowers
June 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Marsh orchid- northern I think, seen in the Pentlands this week. ##wildflowerhour
A bright purple orchid spike in grass.
June 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Been a bit quiet on here lately, just busy doing life stuff I guess... today I was helping marshall the Shiskine Half Marathon. Currently injured and missing my running, so this got me my social running fix.
A selfie of four ladies in high vis kn the finish line.
June 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Howked the first 2025 tatties today too. Looks like it will be a bumper crop (this is just one shaw).
A colander containing a pile of muddy new potatoes
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Growing strawberries for the first time this year and am astonished by how amazing and delicious they are (way better than shop ones)- plus easy! My main learning point has been to pick them a day before they ripen and then ripen them on a windowsill- stops slugs from getting them. 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓
A colander full of bright Ruby red strawberries
June 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Cracking day out on the Witches Step on #Arran with the awesome Sheila. 🤩

Happy summer solstice to those who celebrate 🥳.
A view of Cir Mhor's dramatic North Face from the summit of Caisteal Abhail. A woman in pink t shirt poses with arms outstretched on a rocky mountainside The same woman in pink walking towards the camera on a narrow mountain ridge. A woman in a purple jacket and a blue visor plus a woman in a pink t shirt pose for a selfie on a rocky summit.
June 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Up Cir Mhor today, with my pal Kate taking down the last remaining markers from last weekends Glen Rosa Horseshoe Race. Great chat, craic, and company, even if the view from the top was rubbish. 🥰 Nuis looks a bit glum here, but he had a ball (this is his "resting dog face".)

#Arran
A selfie of two grinning women in outdoor gear flanking a rather po faced looking Nuis (red and wide Border Collie cross). Behind us, a cane draped in tape flutters in the breeze.
June 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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A bit of fun- but with a serious point. Why hire a wildlife guide or Mountain Leader?

Click through to the original instagram post to find out why ➡️ www.instagram.com/reel/DK6_jyG...
June 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Glen Rosa Horseshoe Race marshall vibes.

Wearing ALL the clothes and yet most of the runners came through practically naked! 😵

Well done everyone! Am especially proud of Kirstie Smith for organising the whole thing, and Corinna Goeckeritz for running so damn well and coming in as 1st local woman.
A selfie of two people wearing multiple layers of technical outdoor clothing, GoreTex, Primaloft etc etc, all in red. The weather is terrible, the picture blurry.
June 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Today I was out with these lovely folk from across the pond. 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We spent the morning exploring historic Lochranza, with wildlife/geology thrown in, then headed into the wilds of Glen Catacol after a delicious lunch at the Sandwich Station. As you can see, there were no midges to bother us today! 🌬😁
Four cheery folk pose for a selfie in a Scottish glen. The wind is blowing their hair into random shapes and the woman in the middle is holding on to hers as if it is about to blow away.
June 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Lovely morning out with these folk on one of my open coastal walks.
We were treated to lots of lovely coastal birds, harbour seals, and a very busy otter fishing off shore. 🦦 Can't ask for better than that. 🤩

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Five folk in outdoor gear and with binoculars pose for a photo on the shore. A view of a wild coastline with a seaweed strewn sandy beach, green meadow and rocky volcanic intrusions. On the horizon the flat topped Isle of Pladda and the conical Ailsa Craig A fossil Cheirotherium footprint, and next to it some human feet for scale. Five folk relaxing on the shore in various poses, standing and sitting staring out to sea...
June 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Greater butterfly orchid on Arran today!
#wildflowerhour
A spike of elaborate pale creamy coloured orchid flowers in a green meadow.
June 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Happy #WorldOceanDay from Lamlash Bay, home of Scotland's only No Take Zone and community driven Marine Protected Area. Protecting areas of the sea from destructive fishing practices is highly effective at restoring ecosystems and fisheries and helps our oceans stay resilient in a changing climate.
Lamlash bay- grey skies and calm seas. Looking at the narrow channel between Holy Isle and King's Cross Point. World Ocean Day graphic with an image of an underwater environment filled with lifeforms and abundance. A graphic with the words "Our Ocean Offers Climate solutions. Marine protected areas provide places for fish and wildlife to survive and thrive in a changing climate. #protect30x30 #oceanclimateaction "
June 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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A different kind of day today. Over 25 years since I last wielded a trowel, I found myself volunteering for the NTS archaeology team, who are excavating the area around the recently discovered drawbridge!
#Arran
#Archaeology
Two pieces of blue and white decorated pottery, fitting together, in a latex gloved palm. Birds eye view of the excavation with five people working hard, buckets, trowels and spades scattered about. A view of the excavation, next to the Cromwellian battery A birds eye view from the roof of the cromwellian battery.
June 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Taking bookings for next weeks full day walk on the 5th June- the Cock of Arran, wildife, history and geology.
£45 per person.
Email Wallace@arranwildwalks.com to find out more.

#Arran
A photo of six people admiring a sea view in glorious sunshine. Above them hover the works "COCK OF ARRAN COASTAL WALK 5TH JUNE" A view of the rugged coastline of the North east of Arran Looking out to sea through the narrow entrance of Osians Cave, Arran. An otter climbers onto a rock with a fish.
June 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Super soggy walk up Cir Mhor yesterday. Thank goodness my clients got the memo about the purple jackets 🤣

#Arran
Three women in deep pinky purple tops of exactly the same shade. The same three women only one mow has a green waterproof on and another an orange one- looking wet in the mist. Two women in purple jackets walking up Glen Rosa.
June 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Coastal Wildlife walk this morning. Otter spotting, fossil footprint discovering, and northern marsh orchid admiring kind of day! Next open coastal walk on #Arran is 12th of June but you can book a private guide any time (ish).
#wildflowerhour
Five folk in cosy waterproof outdoor clothing and with binoculars pose for a selfie on the shore. A windswept shoreline strewn with rocks and with green meadows and cliff in the distance. Scudding ominous grey clouds. A large Cheirotherium footprint in yellow sandstone, dwarfing a walking booted foot placed alongside. Lush northern marsh orchid macro with deep pinky purple flowers.
May 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM