Fear of the Dark

This post is a little late, about three weeks in fact, mainly because I'm exceptionally busy and popular (ed: lazy and useless). It was another night time meeting by the railway tracks in Dalwhinnie; having arrived early I got to work digging a car parking spot out of the two feet of snow that still covered everything. This proved time well spent when Murray and Colum rolled up in Murray's gigantic 4x4 and ploughed through the drifts with ease!

Murray has a little blue and red flashing light that clips onto Penny's collar so that we can see her darting around in the darkness and doing the usual trick of covering twice the distance at twice the speed compared to us. It's a surprisingly bright LED and makes the whole walk a little like being at a very poorly attended rave.

The good thing about these night walks is the fabulous view:




The down side is that we are all cowards and once Penny started barking into the darkness the idea that a bear, or some equally ferocious animal like a squirrel, might be stalking us in the darkness took hold. Still it was an incentive to walk faster!