Aurora

We were given plenty of warning - this is from the aurora info.eu website here - and....

....the heavens duly performed through the night, but by the time I saw it....

....the sky was broken up by lozenges of low, dark cloud and the aurora's colours were muted by high haze.

I also have to face the fact that my camera struggles with this sort of photography: it's a great all-rounder but night photography does rather defeat it.

That said, the aurora was the best we've seen since coming to Golspie, with searchlights of green light reaching high into the sky and various pinks visible to the naked eye. And more is forecast over the next couple of days.