Marhofn 84.04 - May 2002

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Mike Milmoe

I did lots of hillwalking this year but mainly Munros, with a friend who is concentrating on completing them. On the Marilyn front the highlight was a trip to the St Kilda group of islands - very impressive. The only summit attained was Conachair on Hirta, this being the only Marilyn of the group that you are officially allowed to climb. The low point of the trip was being defecated on by a bonxie (great skua). The bird was an excellent shot and spattered my face with the foul contents of its bowels, and of course some of it got into my mouth, which I spat out as quickly as possible. At the time I was mildly amused by the accuracy of the bird's aim. That was until the following day when I was to suffer from a severe attack of diarrhoea. As nobody else on the boat had similar problems, I had to put it down to bonxie excrement being the cause.

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