A day out

Our first day away since January 2020 felt really odd. This is the Littleferry peninsula, a National Nature Reserve, and we used to live behind the trees at the extreme right hand edge of the shot. The common seals on the sandbank in the middle of Loch Fleet aren't common at all. Rare as hens' teeth actually. Some of them are enormous.

We went to scatter some ashes* and to see our former neighbour for a quiet morning coffee, only to find everyone we knew had turned out to see us.  Which was unexpected and kind.

The afternoon was a visit to two friends over from LA, who we first met on the  Nature Reserve when they wanted to know what that bird was, and have been friends ever since. The joy that can come from chance meetings.

Then back on the ferry via Cocoa Mountain in Dornoch. Vaut le détour.

* It was Norwestie 2 Skirlie's ashes, which we put with those of her mum, Norwestie 1Tablet and her brother Wolfie, who only survived three days. Orlando The Marmalade Cat is there too. So they are all back where they were born, under the Special Rock they used to climb on, and able to frolic together in the woods as they used to. Sentimental? Us?