Jan '08
(Feb '08 news letter delayed due to location work)
Welcome to the January 08 news page. A page to showcase, any interesting stories, new pictures and announcements.

Announcements:

Happy New Year!

Follow on Experience
Brand new and very exciting weekends and days out are now available.

Guests
Gallery page of guests from 20th Sept 07 to the 11th of October 07 have been uploaded. Great shots, well done to all!

Stories and pictures:
I spent one of the glorious days we had in December on Kerrera to reccy a possible Follow on Experience. Wild Goats, so the ferryman had told me, were a common site on this magnificent island. Normally I never take my camera on a reccy, it hinders decent exploration and I end up with unusable snaps. However the weather was too good, so I broke my golden rule and the camera came too.

Wild Goats, as I discovered are an amazing and very human like animal. I spent all day following one tribe around (I found tribe was more appropriate way of describing them after what I witnessed). There were 5 in the group, some young, some adult and one had a terrible limp.

They never seemed alarmed by my presence but did always keep a distance that was just out of shot. Eventually they got bored of avoiding me and I managed to get within camera range. Near the end of the day, through a bit of luck, I found myself quiet close to the tribe. Unfortunately my positioning was flawed, I'd separated the limping animal from the rest of the tribe.

What I witnessed was astonishing, instead of being wary of me, the whole tribe were totally focussed on the missing weak and limping member. The group didn't relax until they had located the goat and made their way back to it. I was so engrossed with this touching behaviour that I almost missed the ferry, thankfully the ferryman knew about my time keeping skills and kindly waited.

This was such a great day that I've decided to do a 'Follow on Experience' on Kerrera so others can have the same experience. Click here for more details

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