back on the north coast... the forecast saying showers, the bus meeting with rain, the route changing, the shift of the chip shop from the end to the beginning of the walk, hoping that, at worst, drizzle replaces downpour... and it did, for a while... getting about half way to yehliu and the bus stop of completion when the rain returned, taking shelter and waiting for a pause, the pause arriving, the wind blowing cold off the water, back along the edge of the northern highway, a grey world beyond the narrow road, hills rising into low cloud, distances shortening, drizzle and then more rain, the realisation that a fair amount of the last month has been spent walking soggily, that maybe today shouldn't necessarily be another of them, just leave the ever shrinking last leg for for another day... which seemed like a good idea, still does, an approaching bus reinforcing the unexpected wisdom in the thought... so there it is, another hour or so, the best part of two hours in each direction to reach either end of it but then it's done, just not today... the rabbit hole once again down by the forth around sunset, 2019 finding a different kind of fishing