Whats the strangest or most exciting thing

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You have seen from your motorhome window?

Pictures if possible.

Oddly the three things that spring to mind for me were all on the Isle of Arran and include a huge Basking shark literally right next to where we were parked (Twice), Pods of Dolphins and a naked woman who had no idea we were in residence (or didnt care) and went skinny dipping right where we were parked up.
 
barryd said:
You have seen from your motorhome window?

Pictures if possible.

Oddly the three things that spring to mind for me were all on the Isle of Arran and include a huge Basking shark literally right next to where we were parked (Twice), Pods of Dolphins and a naked woman who had no idea we were in residence (or didnt care) and went skinny dipping right where we were parked up.
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Will she be back again, asking for a mate. :love:
 
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Fisherman said:
Whilst in Lochranza on Arran, we had two Stags outside the van rutting one night.
We were worried they would damage the van. It went on for about half an hour. During that time the road was blocked.
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Always blooming Arran! That place is a zoo!

I remember being in a large field near a forest in the south of the Dordogne listening to lots of Rutting one night. It was like being in Jurassic park. Then there was the wild Boar that frightened the life out of me in some woods (Also the Dordogne) when it decided to try and mount the scooter rack at 6am in the morning which is located right behind my head where I sleep. Oh and howling wolves 5000ft up in the French Alps on the Italian border. :D
 
pulled into a french layby one night and spotted a tupperware spaghetti container on the road . it had something in it which at first i thought was poo ,but turned out to be a snake. i pcked it up to show my kids,they were all clustered in the front cab watching . they all insisted it might be alive and i had to release it . as you can imagine i was very careful getting the lid off , no reaction from the snake fankgawd , so i gently tipped it out onto the road . no response at all ,possibly dead . it was about 3 foot long .the kids wanted a closer look ,so i very bravely found a stick and picked it up . no problem ! as i held it up in the headlights for my eager audience , the bloody thing came back to life and started slithering toward me . i dropped it and ran , maybe 100 meters before i stopped to see where it was .it had scarpered ,luckily . the kids all said i made a squeaky high pitched noise when it moved but i deny it
 
Parked overnight in a small car park. No problem. Early next morning sitting in the passenger seat looking at my map book I looked up and in the corner of the car park in plain view was a man leaning back against his red sports car giving himself hand relief.!!!!!( not having a wee)
My first reaction, with shock, was " my, that's big one"
I looked down for a while, and he must have seen movement, because when I looked up he had got in his car and moved it to the otherside of the car park.
When I left a few minutes later I was tempted to wave my phone out of the window shouting " I've got it on video "
I didn't of course, I hadn't.
Well.
 
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I once woke in the early hours to an infernal racket going on outside.

Looked out of the window and there was an Elk riding a Unicycle dressed in a gold Lamé leotard, sunglasses, a pork pie hat and red high heeled shoes whilst playing the trombone! I told Julie the next morning but she hadn't heard a thing. 😐

(may not have happened)
 
Robmac said:
I once woke in the early hours to an infernal racket going on outside.

Looked out of the window and there was an Elk riding a Unicycle dressed in a gold Lamé leotard, sunglasses, a pork pie hat and red high heeled shoes whilst playing the trombone! I told Julie the next morning but she hadn't heard a thing. 😐

(may not have happened)
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Are you sure it wasn't Ral? although maybe he can't play the trombone.
 
barryd said:
Always blooming Arran! That place is a zoo!

I remember being in a large field near a forest in the south of the Dordogne listening to lots of Rutting one night. It was like being in Jurassic park. Then there was the wild Boar that frightened the life out of me in some woods (Also the Dordogne) when it decided to try and mount the scooter rack at 6am in the morning which is located right behind my head where I sleep. Oh and howling wolves 5000ft up in the French Alps on the Italian border. :D
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Are you sure it was not our zomby.
 
We've had Stags around the van in the early hours many times outside the Applecross Inn back when they weren't prevented from coming into the village, they do tend to barge the van a bit but it has never bothered us.

Also Mountain Hares in Glencoe.
 
Robmac said:
We've had Stags around the van in the early hours many times outside the Applecross Inn back when they weren't prevented from coming into the village, they do tend to barge the van a bit but it has never bothered us.

Also Mountain Hares in Glencoe.
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Stopped on minchimhampton (?) common a few times . Last time was woken by the van moving .
Went out , surrounded by horses , wing mirrors pushed in . Big , beautiful , friendly beasts .
Few vans there , no idea why they picked on mine . Possibly the smell ?
 
Robmac said:
I once woke in the early hours to an infernal racket going on outside.

Looked out of the window and there was an Elk riding a Unicycle dressed in a gold Lamé leotard, sunglasses, a pork pie hat and red high heeled shoes whilst playing the trombone! I told Julie the next morning but she hadn't heard a thing. 😐

(may not have happened)
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i find that a bit hard to believe ! no elk i ever met would wear red shoes with gold lame . green maybe
 
Robmac said:
I once woke in the early hours to an infernal racket going on outside.

Looked out of the window and there was an Elk riding a Unicycle dressed in a gold Lamé leotard, sunglasses, a pork pie hat and red high heeled shoes whilst playing the trombone! I told Julie the next morning but she hadn't heard a thing. 😐

(may not have happened)
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They are two a penny here in the Dales. Annoying noisy feckers for sure!! Saw this one yesterday when we were out over the Buttertubs pass.

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