Stonehaven, Scotland

Stonehaven, Scotland is a fishing village on the east coast north of St. Andrews. It has a festival where the town folk create metal baskets (think crab pots) and fill them with flammable material. They lite them on fire and walk through town. Swinging them over their heads. At the end of High Street, they toss the flaming baskets into the sea at the stroke of midnight. I watched them toss. Then the fireworks went off from the hill below Dunnottar Castle.
It was 30 degrees.
I stood outside for 3 hours to get a good position.
My camera died.

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