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SCOTLAND - PAGE 2  - HIGHLAND GAMES - 12/06/04

A rare event for Boots and Paws, photos of people! These pictures were all taken at the Kilmore and Kilbride Highland Games held on Saturday 12th June 2004.

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Highland Games gatherings take place across Scotland throughout the summer season, bringing together local communities and tourists with culture, music, skills and traditional Scottish hospitality. These games were held at Balinoe field to the south of Oban.
Events included a piping competition, highland dancing, track and field events and the 'heavy' events featuring the hammer, shot, weight over bar and tossing the caber.
Games Day Oh gather then, gather then, From hamlet and ben; Oh gather then, gather then, From farmstead and glen. From deep gushing falls On Feochan's cold heights, From whirlpools at 'Niver' Where water is white. From woods, dark, at Dunach, Where roars the wild stag, From wet hills at Lonan, Grey rocks at Lerags. They come to the field At sandy loch-shore, Where wind from the ocean Hits Balinoe-mor. And gathered the old blood, And gathered the new, The ancient and young, The many and few.		Come dancers, come pipers, Come tossers of sheaf, Fling high the good hammer, And run for your chief! And swing the plaid far, And thrill the drum wild; The war-notes of Oban, The cries of Kilbride. So listen ye visitors, If listen ye will, From loch-shore and lay-by, From roadside and hill, And see at these games, On Balinoe shore, Competitive spirits Of ancient Kilmore. EL. A poem printed in the programme for the games.