The Kelpy.

My first cycle outing for over a month, and the weather had to be abysmal. We followed the "Round the Forth" route (approximately) and had lunch at The Kelpies. The site isn't finished yet, but it is destined to be a tourist attraction, guided tours were in progress as we ate our play-pieces. There are a couple of refreshment wagons which serve a decent coffee, all we needed was somewhere nice and dry to drink it.

Kelpies are mythological sea horses but the Grangemouth versions owe more to the heavy horses of our industrial heritage. I believe that the heavy horse was originally used for war and would have carried an armoured knight on its back, the knight in armour being such a cumbersome animal that it would not be viable unless he had a strong beast of burden as a mobility aid.

Andy Scott, the sculptor, has a history of this sort of work having modelled horses before and, also, used this technique of stainless steel cladding on a scaffolding support. It's a very effective work, but would be best viewed from a distance if it were not for the clutter of pylons, power lines and all the other industrial paraphernalia of the area. The two much blipped heads stand 30 metres tall and weigh 300 tonnes each; I've tried to give a different viewpoint and treatment to the subject to avoid duplicating the standard shots.