Through the fog

Did you know that the difference between fog and mist is that with the former one cannot see more than 1000 metres and the latter, mist, one can; that's my understanding of it anyway. So, I'm calling this mornings "white stuff" fog because visibility was way down, at least on my way up into the hills early this morning. It cleared as the morning wore on but it was cold and the fog wasn't in a hurry to leave.

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I went to my gun range today for a sneaky run and gun shoot which was pretty cool because I was fast and accurate, despite not having shot for a couple weeks, and that's always good...and my expectation. Of course, I talked some shit with some of the lads and gals and that's also a good thing.

After a couple hours it was time to push on and I decided to take a drive around to see what I could see, maybe hit a few trails, figuring that the fog in the hills, whilst difficult to see through, would make for some nice scenery. I wandered about, hit some tracks that, if I'm honest, weren't as gnarly as I'd hoped they would be and generally had a good time spinning up the wheels a little and flexing the suspension on the Big Dog, my four wheel drive.

_{I took this image while stopped at the lights, it was reasonably early so there wasn't much traffic and you can see the conditions...the almost impenetrable fog. Visibility was at about 400 metres at this stage so fog not mist.}

_{Here's a shot I took from the track I was on looking across a little valley and up a hill; you can't see the hill because of the fog which reduced visibility to about 300 metres at this stage. After I took this it started to lift a little and within about an hour is was very low cloud rather than fog.}

_{None of the tracks I was on were difficult to navigate although they were quite wet in places. I took this shot early on, clearly there's not a lot of mud on the tyre, but I managed to get a little more on there over the couple hours I was out on the tracks...I don't mind that it was a little lackluster though, mud means cleaning and I'm not in the mood for that this weekend.}

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I headed home, after having a legit Cornish pasty and coffee for lunch in a little country town called Williamston and the rest of the day will be spent cleaning guns (this will get done tomorrow), reading, doing some research on some stuff I can't tell you about, writing some stuff I can't tell you about and a couple conversations that I can't tell you about. Later tonight, I'll resume watching House of Cards on Netflix.

I had a nice day today, solitary, just me and the tracks and the fog and guns and...ok, I was shotting with others so not completely solitary, but a nice day all the same even despite the heavy fog.