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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: darkbrowneggs on February 23, 2014, 09:44:58 pm

Title: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 23, 2014, 09:44:58 pm: Yahhhhyyyyy..... just seen the northern lights. Not the most earth shattering display but deffo the lights. There was just a lightness in the northern sky at first and I thought I was kidding myself. But then it must have clouded over by the horizon and you could see light flashlight of green (though very pale) shooting up from behind the cloud bank

Great.

I think its over as its looking more cloudy, but I shall go for another look. Up by Lock Watten at present just below Thurso and John o Groats
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 23, 2014, 09:48:32 pm: Wonderful, aren't they? I'm so glad you saw them. I saw them on Isle of Arran some years ago. It was like standing under a dome of coloured lights pouring down around me. I shall never forget it.
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Post by: MikeM on February 23, 2014, 09:49:09 pm: awesome, something I've always wanted to see.
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Post by: Victorian Farmer on February 23, 2014, 09:56:14 pm: Great sue bad week whith the wether onley monday eney good will pic up the end of the week.
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Post by: sabrina on February 23, 2014, 10:15:06 pm: Been quite a show in Shetland tonight so my friends say.
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Post by: john and helen on February 23, 2014, 10:43:50 pm: wow!! how lucky..something i would love to see :thumbsup:
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: Bramblecot on February 23, 2014, 10:48:53 pm: Not a lot of chance down here in the West Country :roflanim: . Another thing for my bucket list. Been reading your blog Sue :thumbsup:
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 23, 2014, 11:28:01 pm: Yes one thing off my 'bucket list'

As someone said - I don't have much on my bucket list, but I have a real long fucket list :roflanim:

Pleased you like the blog. I took some photos of tonights 'display' but they are just black with two pinpricks of light from the houses on the opposite shore of the Loch
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: HesterF on February 24, 2014, 12:49:55 am: You're very lucky! We lived in Sweden for four years and went up to the North on two midwinter trips with hopes of seeing them - nowt! Fortunately plenty else to do but it would have been the icing on the cake as we sat at the bar of the ice hotel....
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Post by: sokel on February 24, 2014, 01:27:23 am: That's great, we have seen them here a couple of times. Like you not the best display in the world but a lot more than others can see :thumbsup:
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 24, 2014, 07:46:03 am: Quote from: HesterF on February 24, 2014, 12:49:55 am
You're very lucky! We lived in Sweden for four years and went up to the North on two midwinter trips with hopes of seeing them - nowt! Fortunately plenty else to do but it would have been the icing on the cake as we sat at the bar of the ice hotel....

Now I wonder if Thebus Phoebe and I can make it up to the Ice Hotel? :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: Rosemary on February 24, 2014, 08:16:16 am: Lucky you! Photos never do these wonderful sights justice - better to just enjoy them :)

Are you going to Orkney?
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: Skylark on February 24, 2014, 08:19:23 am: Hi, been following your journey from here in Aberdeenshire with interest. Think you are amazing for the way you overcome all the hurdles along the way. For a slightly younger person starting to suffer from arthritis (me) you are an inspiration. Have a wonderful time on the islands, I will look forward to hearing about it.
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 24, 2014, 12:09:10 pm: Quote from: Rosemary on February 24, 2014, 08:16:16 am
Lucky you! Photos never do these wonderful sights justice - better to just enjoy them :)

Are you going to Orkney?

Queuing in the ferry lines at Gills Bay now :thumbsup:
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: renee on February 24, 2014, 06:49:53 pm: Well, if you get the wrong ferry and end in Norway, come across and enjoy the lights with me ;)
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Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 24, 2014, 07:33:48 pm: :D I might well take you up on that another time ;D
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Post by: renee on February 24, 2014, 08:37:53 pm: Everyone is more than welcome :excited:
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 24, 2014, 09:06:34 pm: I would love to visit your neck of the woods. Can't see it happening but I can dream.
Title: Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
Post by: renee on February 25, 2014, 05:35:14 am: I am sorry to have pinched brown eggs topic :-[
I love the area I live in and I also its' remoteness. As I say , Visitors are welcome. I am not lonely but I am not overrun by guests. My farm is so difficult to get to, the people who do come really have to make an effort