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🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The River Tay - Scotland's longest river from Killin to Dunkeld
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0:22.9 | The Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Ewan McElwraith from BBC Radio Scotland. |
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0:37.1 | Today we're going to be taking you on the first part of a journey we've made along the River T. Thank you very much for choosing the Scotland Outdoors podcast. Today we're going to be taking you on the first part of a journey we've made along the River T, |
0:41.3 | Scotland's longest river. |
0:43.3 | Hello, good morning. You can hear that roaring in the background. |
0:48.3 | I have to say this is absolutely magnificent, but at the falls of Dockert just outside Kalin. There's an old-fashioned |
0:56.2 | bridge here, goes across the river and the river breaks into upteen different sort of branches |
1:01.1 | and rivulets. The whole thing is about the colour of tea and there's foam everywhere. It just |
1:06.7 | drops over a succession of falls. There are big mature Scots Pines in here. |
1:13.4 | Essentially, this is quintessential Highland Scotland. |
1:16.7 | If you get a postcard from Scotland, this one will be on the list. |
1:20.5 | And it's special for me, because my mum and dad came here the first two nights, |
1:22.9 | I think, of the honeymoon when they got married many, many years ago. |
1:24.7 | We're in the hotel behind me. |
1:32.3 | And this has always been a special place. There's a wagtail, just braving the rapids there. It's just, look slightly out of place. |
1:34.3 | I mean, as you said, it's just a sea of foam, but it's loud. |
1:38.3 | We are at the start of a journey today. |
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