Mirrie dancers.

The mirrie dancers, the northern lights, paid a brief visit in the early hours of this morning. They were seen over most of the UK the day before but here we got the short straw, a localised haar putting paid to plans to photograph them.

Today they were less spectacular, a faint glow to the north. I took a camera and tripod to the old lifeboat station on South Walls along with a wide beamed torch, used to “paint in” the station that otherwise would have exposed as a silhouette, and spent a couple of early morning hours watching the sky while listening to the slap of the waves against the shore.

The show was good but not the best we’ve seen. There’s always next time though, haars permitting.