Inverawe Foraging

Although we've been warned that babies don't keep to schedules, we've also just been told that ours is running a little late. Chris has been exhorted to sit like a navvy, on or off her big bouncy ball, scrub the skirting boards (!), and take long walks. We opted for the third of these today when we went to Inverawe Country Park.
As well as a variety of walks through beautiful woodland beside lochans stocked with Rainbow Trout (£30 for an hour of fly-fishing tuition plus 2 more hours to practice your skills), and along the banks of the river Awe and the shores of Loch Etive, there's a shop and tearoom where they sell the produce from their smokehouse. I put Chris's arborial knowledge to the test as she identified Oak, Beech, Silver Birch, Rowan, Ash, Alder, Horse- and Sweet Chestnut, and Hazel.
We also found an abundance of Wild Cherry trees and foraged a small punnet's-worth. We saw more budding Blackberries than we could count and resolved to come back in a few months to stock up. If we add today's discoveries to the list of things we have found locally, we can forage cherries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, hazelnuts, and sweet chestnuts.