BENCHMARKS continued
The part of
this fair land that is often affectionately referred to as the Wee
North, is a happy spot for benchmark hunting in the purist style
i.e. without maps or satellite locating devices; but simply equipped
with a pair of sturdy shoes, a photographic recording device, and a
strong ambition to prevail against whatever the weather decides to
throw, coupled to an instinctive sense of where to look. Sadly now
during most of the times that Benchmarker travels through that
Northern realm, it has been under sufferance as a passenger in
the mechanically propelled steed of someone else; someone who it is
prudent not to identify. However while returning from a long day on a
pilgrimage to that holiest of holy shrines of motorcycle road racing
- the North West 200 - an opportunity presented itself, ever so
briefly, when the driver decided that the bag of chips sized hole in
his stomach could no longer be ignored and pulled in on the eastern
end of Main Street in the village of Ballykelly. As the second
passenger was dispatched to the chippie, Benchmarker quickly
disembarked and scanned the street-scape, whereupon his eye alighted
on this one located on a terrace of houses. Two clicks of the camera
and it was recorded. Then it was back in the car just as the journey
resumed. The bag of chips, a fitting reward, never tasted better.
Below:
A 'mark on the south east of Main Street in Ballykelly, County Derry.
Above:
Looking west on Main Street in Ballykelly with the
'mark on the left.
