I took these walking up by Menzies castle on the sculpture trail. My family has a bit of history with that castle and rumour has it, my dad
could have been its laird. But because this is my family and opportunities for ultimate coolness constantly seem to be missed, we do not have a stake on the castle. Damn. Oh well...here are the pictures I took.
I was quite interested in the amazing rock formations that dominated the hillside the walk wound round. There were a lot of natural rock walls that would have been brilliant for climbing, and of course there were the carvings. Some were quite hard to spot - we missed the most famous one which is carved into the rocks around St David's well. The well is more like a spring really and would be pretty easy to overlook. Someone had even left their toy elephant there which had gathered a lot of plant life.
The first thing I noticed when my dad pointed out this sculpture was the eye. It took me a while to figure out that it was part of a larger piece (slow as I am sometimes). There was some dispute as to what this carving was; we eventually over ruled the possibility that it was a dinosaur and settled for a dragon instead.
I wasn't even really looking when I took this photo. I was just peering into a tiny cave and snapping away and only realised I'd taken a decent shot when I got home!
Visitors have been leaving coins on the sculptures for good luck (I think)
My mum suggested I remove the coins to take a better picture because the money made the sculpture look cheap. My reaction:
Me: I can't!
Mum: Why not?
Me: Because!
Mum: You can put them back afterwards
Me: Mum!
Mum: What?
Me: Taboo!
Yes. I would like to claim I'm not superstitious, but the idea of removing the coins just didn't strike me as a good one.
