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This was a day when we didn’t have any young explorers
– they were all off producing a record entry for the
junior competitions at the Moidart Produce Show.
Under normal circumstances I might have cancelled the expedition
but two people had come especially from Australia, and that
hasn’t happened before. We were four in number, Andrea
and Maris plus Allan and Maria from Canberra. Maria’s
people are thought to have left Moidart and migrated on the
‘British King’ in the 1830s, although I haven’t
been able to track them down yet in the local records. We
also had Jamie and Flame, two Labradors with excellent noses
for finding stuff on the hill.
This was a fairly fast expedition, straight up to the village
at Glenforslan, a short break for the Tunnock’s wafers
and back to the cars. The weather was not great but at least
the rain held off. I was quite impressed that everyone was
able to cross the narrow dam, even in a fairly strong breeze.
However, without a gathering of eager young eyes, we didn’t
find a lot of surprising things, except for Jamie, who spent
a long time on the hill with something smelly.
John
Dye
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