The Beast from the Northwest

Despite snow showers continuing through the day by late yesterday afternoon most of the snow had gone but it came back overnight, with temperatures well below zero again but not cold enough for ice to form so....

....we walked up the road to Golspie Tower looking back to where more snow showers were moving across the sea. The local media are trying to hype this up as a successor to 2018's Beast from the East but it isn't as bad and, anyway, The Beast from the Northwest just doesn't sound right.

Above Golspie Tower we plunged into forestry which shielded us from the worst of the wind. Judging by the lack of footprints we were the first to walk here today except for the deer.

There are several points along the winding forestry tracks which give fine views south, across the golf course and the links to the mouth of Loch Fleet and beyond, with the waves rolling in to the firth having their tops whipped off by the wind.

From a knoll on the edge of the forestry one can look almost due west across the houses at our end of the village. This knoll is the site of....

....the silent stones of a five millennia-old Neolithic cairn - details here.