It’s been quite a while since we last heard from Lord of the Northern Poles, aka Kev Currie (#0530). Turns out he’s been busy misanthroping in Ardnamurchan – 50 square miles of remote and empty (of humans) peninsula in the western Highlands of Scotland. It’s a grand place for it, for sure, but we’ve missed Kev’s excellent and bewitching pole photos. Amends have been made with these two however. Kev says that his passion for poles has not waned and if anything has deepened as his wife (Lady of the Northern Poles) has been trying, unsuccessfully, to get him to counselling. Don’t bother Lady OTNP.
“The Ardnamurchen peninsula was absolutely amazing” Kev said “not just for the abundance of old telegraph poles but the amount of otters eagles and seals we saw and for being almost devoid of other humans.” It’s long been on my must-visit list and I have sailed past it on the ferry to Tiree and Barra.
Pic #1 is of some fine reindeer food on an unmarked pole. Shows how clean the air is up there, that it’s growing on a creosoted pole notwithstanding. And the second pic is a 2½ armed pole also with no date.
