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darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
    • The World is My Lobster
I ve seen the Northern Lights
« 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



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Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
    • Telford
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #1 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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MikeM

  • Joined Jul 2011
    • NW Devon
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2014, 09:49:09 pm »
awesome, something I've always wanted to see.
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Victorian Farmer

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Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #3 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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sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2014, 10:15:06 pm »
Been quite a show in Shetland tonight so my friends say.
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john and helen

  • Joined Mar 2013
    • Devon
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Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2014, 10:43:50 pm »
wow!! how lucky..something i would love to see :thumbsup:
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Bramblecot

  • Joined Jul 2008
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #6 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:
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darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
    • The World is My Lobster
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #7 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
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HesterF

  • Joined Jul 2012
    • Kent
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Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #8 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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sokel

  • Joined Jun 2012
    • S W northumberland
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #9 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:
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darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
    • The World is My Lobster
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #10 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:
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Barry, Angus, Scotland
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Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #11 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?
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Skylark

  • Joined Jan 2013
    • Aberdeenshire
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #12 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.
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darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
    • The World is My Lobster
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #13 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:
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renee

  • Joined Jan 2013
    • jämtland
Re: I ve seen the Northern Lights
« Reply #14 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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