Fake glacial erratics at Combe Gill Hydro

 

If you look at the picture above, you'll see some pale coloured boulders amid the darker grey of the glacial deposits. Last time I was up on Bessyboot, I posted about Combe Gill Hydro which was being installed at the time. If you look at my old pictures from two years ago, there is a scar where the access road for the construction machinery had been built. I was expecting to be able to use that track but it has vanished. The fellside has been carefully restored and the glacial erratics replaced. This is good. The costs of the restoration will need to be factored in to any economic calculations about renewable schemes like this.