The Kelpies - photo stop

 We had two photo-stops during todays’s drive in the pouring rain - and both times the rain stopped, and for our last stop at The Kelpies, it was even sunny.

The kelpies in Scottish mythology were mostly malevolent creatures who lived near water and took the shape of a horse. They carried people across the water - but like the clever fox, half way across, the game changed - and they dove down to the watery depths to drown the hapless humans. For no apparent reason.

Anyway an artist was inspired to build these statutes to recognize the value of Clydesdales, and other working horses, who helped make Scottish industry great. And then he convinced a city to purchase them for display. They sit in a vast playground area outside Falkirk, an hour from Edinburgh, in central Scotland.

They are massive, and you get quite a shock seeing them from afar. But when you se them up close, they are awe-inspiring. They are some 30m high.

They looked dramatic and awesome in the sun that had only just come out all day, but imagine what they would be like lit up at night in different colours! A veritable Canberra mint.

One is quite maternal looking, while the other is just mad. I don’t know much about them, if there is much to know, but they are, as Ron Weasley would say “bloody mad” (and that means very good).