At my second drop today I met this Alpaca, or at least that's what I was told it was. I don't think it was impressed with me and I must say the feeling was mutual. Its strange what you meet on farms today. I am told they are used to make socks, that is, the wool is used to make socks, not the whole animal.
On the way back to base I was stopped by the red lights for the swing bridge on the A63 Selby byepass. I have only seen the bridge swing open twice before and this time I was at the front of the queue, hence I got an excellent view of the operation of the bridge.
The bridge dropping to allow opening.
Opening.
Fully open.
The operation from starting to swing to fully open took about two minutes. The whole thing seems to operate very smoothly. The only trouble, from my point of view, was that because of the angle I couldn't see what, if anything came through. When I crossed the bridge after it had closed there was nothing in view on the river. I suppose its possible that it has to be operated on a regular basis to ensure it is working correctly and that is what I witnessed today. Either way it is an impressive construction. After I had completed my drops I collected a full load of horse feed from Walden Stubbs to go back to base. Apart from the bridge and the standoffish alpaca there was nothing remarkable about the day but that's not a bad thing. See you tomorrow.
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