At last I've got round to blogging about a once in a life time walk that we experienced last month... walking over the frozen Lake of Menteith across to Inchmahome priory! The lake froze over at the beginning of January when the weather was at its coldest. It is over 30 years since the lake has frozen over so thick, and over 30years since a bonspielhas been held on the lake. Unfortunately the official bonspiel never went ahead because of health and safety, but many curlers still gathered and held unofficial matches!
We could see how thick the ice was in places, and even see the water underneath which was a bit scary!!! In the pic above, it looks like a crack, but it's not, these superficial cracks were dotted about the ice, and apparently caused by springs underneath! It was rumoured that an artic could drive over it as it was so thick? Whether that is true, who knows, but literally hundreds of people gathered on the ice over the week to view the spectacular sight.
We bravely walked over to the priory with Jock our Jack Russell, who was having a ball!! The Priory is usually only reachable by a rowing boat in the summer months!!Even so Lake of Menteith is only 6miles from the farm, I had never visited the priory! So it was wonderful to experience the priory in it's magical icy conditions!
You're very brave! Not in a million years would I have put a foot on the frozen ice - what if......?! x
Posted by: Bella Bheag | 02/28/2010 at 11:05 PM
I'm with the comment above, never mind how thick the ice was I would never do that. I agree you have to jump on these once in a 30 year occurence things but NO!
The priory does look beautiful though!
Vanessa x
Posted by: Vanessa | 03/01/2010 at 09:20 AM
love that last photo of the boys in matching red jackets! looks amazing cx
Posted by: caireen | 03/05/2010 at 05:18 PM