Cobourg Highland Games

[Nathan]

The Cobourg Highland Games were held this weekend. It was a lovely day at Victoria Park on the shores of Lake Ontario. I actually snapped a fair amount of photos but I neglected to take a shot with xmarks' own Crash who also attended with his lovely wife. I went looking for him with my camera after I remembered, but didn't track him down. Here are some of the shots I did take.

Jim McDonald and I at the Clan Donald tent. Apologies that my tie was sticking out of my jacket. The tent is new, so we're moving up in the world.







Just Jim...





The rest of these are just shots I took when I was lucky enough to wander from the tent...

[Nathan]

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[ASinclair]

What a gorgeous day for the Games! Victoria Park is lovely. I especially like the Heavy Athletics being done on the beach with the lake in the background. And, nice tent.

[Nathan]

It was a gorgeous day. Clan Donald's latest member just emailed me a dropbox full of photos he took at the event and they are quite good. I've asked him if I can share the ones of our Clan Donald reps and am waiting to hear back.

The heavy events on the beach were quite nice to watch but the athletes, who are more used to grass, had to adjust their technique for sand. I think they used something called a toe board and didn't wear their spikes...

[Nathan]

I got the go ahead to share. I did crop these so they are not exactly as Ron shot them. Enjoy...

On the way back from the opening ceremony and the parade of the Clans.



Jim and I by the tent. I'm letting my freshly waxed Barbour dry in the sun here.



Dohmnaill gu brath! Jim McDonald and I looking far too serious.

[Nathan]

It was great to wear this lovat green jacket again. I really like the stag horn buttons and the fit of this jacket.



I've been wearing this other patterned tweed one a lot lately, which i like because of the less common tweed and the lighter weight of the fabric. This one is not nearly as warm as the green one. If I can find a good deal on real stag horn buttons for the jacket and waistcoat, I'll swap these synthetic ones off. This jacket also has shorter epaulettes than most. I'm not sure why that choice was made, but I'm getting used to it.



I did have to take off the green tweed and bonnet in the afternoon because it got so hot. By contrast, The morning and the evening were very cool.

[SeumasA]

Lookin' good Nathan.

[Nathan]

Thanks cousin! The games were great. The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band won the Grade one competition and were on fire.