German and Midgy

Thought you'd appreciate an amusing encounter last week at
Inversnaid. We'd spent the saturday night camping down by
Rob Roy's Prison (a big rock, I think?), and walked back to
the Car Park at Inversnaird Hotel. In the car park there is
one of those new gas powered midgy magnets, about the size
of a large shoe box with a funnel underneath to suck in the
midgys. When we approached it, there was a party of german
hikers, bottles open, trying to fill their bottles from the
funnel underneath? They had reached the conclusion between
themselves that this was a 'free repellent dispenser'!?!? We
were tempted, but explained that this was in fact a hoover
which collected the creatures. Their leader then asked if
this 'hoover' removed all midgys from this area of Loch
Lomond. This is like asking in death row We really got the
feeling that this was probably going to be the last trip
they would be making to this area, midgys are often the only
down side of walking over there. Last week the midgys down
Loch Lomond were absolutely ferocious.