A Sense of Wonder

From Trevor Potts

One of the delights of running a campsite is the variety of people one meets from all walks of life. The vast majority of the campers come here because of the pleasures of simply being in the outdoors. What gives me the greatest pleasure at this time of the year is the children, and their simple enthusiasm to explore the new found environment into which their parents have brought them.

There's a polite tap, tap on the office door and a couple of children walk in with a rock or fossil off the beach, or in this case a dragonfly, and they ask me to identify it. I usually point them in the direction of the Study Centre bookshelf and ask them to see if they can find it in one of the books. In this case they came back with the dragonfly and a slip of paper with the name written on it - priceless.

The dragonfly the girls found was a golden ringed dragonfly. More about it here.

Trevor Potts runs the award-winning Ardnamurchan Campsite, website here.