Imagine the world as it was. Go back millions of years, well before mankind. Imagine the mountain scenery around here. Glaciers have scoured out the valleys. The glaciers have already dumped the huge boulders in the valleys. Earthquake eruptions have caused huge chasms and cliff faces where roped rock climbers now go for sport. The slow weathering of the mountain tops centimetre by centimetre, year by year, has caused the mountain scree that runs under your feet to-day and is so tough on your knees. It has reduced the height of the mountains to mere 4,000 foot stumps from the giants of 14,000 feet they were once, the size of the Alps.
Yet, if you have a mind so to do, it is not difficult to view this world exactly as it was. Exactly.
To-days human existence will be tiny specks and easy to ignore. They’ve only been here for the 10,000 years since the last Ice Age. A little dreaming and you are back in time. It will take you three hours to the tops.
The easy method of looking back millions of years. Just do the Cuil Hill walk to the top, 45 minutes on the other side of the Bay. Look North, South, East and West. You are looking back millions of years.
