Proposal for a walkway that allows visitors to see what goes on under the surface of the bog.

Though the mole doesn’t want to tunnel under the bog I’d like see what’s going on there. Erecting a big tower and building a boardwalk on the surface of the moss are all very well but the really interesting stuff is going on below ground.

The mole digs as close to the bog as it dare without getting its velvet coat wet. No need to go any closer, the sphagnum mosses of the bog create peat not soil so there aren’t any worms out there for it to eat.Mole hills and viewing tower, Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve.

Peat stacks, by “the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat.”

Fragments of seashells on peat- from when Flanders Moss was under the North Sea.

Alpacas on Flanders Moss today.

At today’s -9.5 degrees the bog was crinkling rather than squelching.

On the peatland’s Atlantic shore, a dream or a nightmare?

Winter on the moor.

For seeing in the dark people would use a peat torch, ‘athainne’ in Gaelic, which gave a good light and could be used for seeing the way or to fish for salmon and trout out on the moor at night.