Dell Woods Nethy Bridge and Broomhill Bridge

The woods around Nethy Bridge and the riverside walk to Broomhill are particularly attractive in autumn as vegetation begins to change colour.

Rowans and pines in Dell Woods

The woodland floor had a rich crop of delicious blaeberries, ripe for the picking.

Rock art?

Fly Agaric, poisonous but one of the more photogenic of the many fungi to be found in the woods at this time of year.

Coulnakyle on the fertile flood plain of  the Spey, here seen from the disused  Grantown to Nethy railway, part of the Speyside Way.

Between  1566 and 1582 Coulnakyle was the home of the Duncan Grant, eldest son of the Laird of Grant who resided at Castle Grant.  Royalist General Montrose took refuge there in 1644 whilst his troops hid in the Forest of Abernethy which then stretched as far as the farm, in order to evade the Duke of Argyll's forces. Clounakyle appropriately means 'at the back of the woods'. In 1689 General Mackay sheltered there to avoid Bonnie Dundee who was leading the rebellion against protestant King, William of Orange.

The Spey seen from Broomhill Bridge, about a mile beyond Coulnakyle

The wooden cantilever road bridge over the Spey close to Broomhill Station

The bridge was opened in 1894 and is the only wooden bridge over the Spey