Hello dear Steemians,
Yesterday we have had a n interesting event in Kirkcaldy in Kingdom of Fife, the place where we live. Usually once a year we have Highland’s game on Seafront, once we have ow tide so games took place from 10 AM till 3PM. The weather was typical Scotish, cloudy, but dry with some wind, luckily not too stormy. For local people was absolutely lovely day!
In this post I am going to show you the pictures from Event done by @myskye with digital camera Sony RX10 and my painting that I have done by hte end of the day, full with emotions and impressions from my first LIVE Highland's game event.
Talking about Highland’s games, the oldest Highlands game is held in June in Ceres in Fife, they began under a Charter of Robert the Bruce in the recognition of the villager support at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
The opening of ceremony started with Piper band, of course dressed in traditional Kilts, that is also something I like, the colorful Kilts and the sounds of pipes and drumps, the combination of those two are so beautiful and distinct.
The rest of activities were on beach:
If in the past it was riding horses, this time we had riding racing cycles, the guys had it not easy on wet sand but they and of course we, people who watched have had a lot of fun.
The other, very cute performance was Highland's dance done by little girls, ages 4-10 years. It is a solo competition for dancers, originated from Galik folk dance, but formalized with the conventions of ballet, and has been subject to influences from outside the Highlands. Of course dance is accompanied by pipe music. The girls were very proud and happy, they received a lot of applauses. Somehow @myskye did not want to picture little girls :(
From the games I find the most interesting throwing heavy metal ball about 2,5 kg up to 6 kg as far as possible, later should be thrown above the plank which also slowly going up in height reaching 6 meters.
This athlet is originally from Kyrgistan, but if you do not know that you can't really guess, he looks like real Scots and Loves Highland's games
The highlight for me and possibly for everyone was Caber Toss, that is a trunk of a tall tree about 6 m and about 50-80 kg. The thrower takes the wide end upright with the hands put together, takes a short run with the caber and then stops and pulls the caber so that the large end hits the ground and the small end flips over and faces away from the thrower.
In this competition was only one winner from 6 athletes.
Because we were just in front of athletic game on seafront and probably I was one of the cheerful one we received a certificate of attendance, I am so happy for that and wanted to share it with you.
My day was full of excitement, so later a day I decided to do the painting for your.
