Perth Highland Games

**SFCRick** · 17th August 10, 10:39 AM

Grand set of pics

**McClef** · 17th August 10, 10:49 AM

Yes a good set Alex - what a lot of travelling you are doing!

**Downunder Kilt** · 17th August 10, 03:49 PM

Great photo essay as usual Alex and Thankyou. As others have mentioned, thanks for the tartan ID's as well

**Ancienne Alliance** · 18th August 10, 12:08 AM

Wonderful photos and glorious weather !

Thank you for sharing these, Alex.

best,

robert

**Lallans** · 18th August 10, 05:40 AM

I need to know: which Perth was this exactly?

**Dr Mac** · 18th August 10, 01:46 PM

Like others, I really appreciate the way you identify the various tartans, Alex... thanks!

**OC Richard** · 19th August 10, 04:49 AM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

The beer tent. Note kilted gent with pink Hawaiian print shirt.

Wow this guy reminds me of my home here in California! My son wears Hawai'ian shirts every day. One of our local elementary schools even adopted Hawai'ian shirts (in the school's colours) as their uniform.
Here in California we call them Hawai'ian shirts, and in Hawai'i they're called Aloha shirts.

It brings to mind a funeral I played at a couple years ago. I was at the cemetery in my piping kit waiting for the signal to start playing. The family was gathered around the grave. They put up a table and on it a boombox which began playing Hawai'ian music.

They had a big cardboard box and from it began grabbing Hawai'ian shirts, which they handed out to all the people present who didn't come already dressed that way. Men who had come in suits took off their jackets and put on Hawai'an shirts and so forth.

I had just returned from Maui, coincidentally, and I happened to have a very loud Hawai'ian shirt which I had bought there in the boot of my car, so I took off my Argyll jacket and put on the shirt (when in Rome, as they say).

Then everyone started taking off their shoes and socks! And from a second cardboard box came random brightly coloured socks, each mourner putting on a mismatched pair. (I was out of luck on that one.)

And then the funeral started, each person wearing a loud Hawai'ian shirt and two mismatched bright socks. I was told that the deceased always dressed like that- no shoes.

Yes thanks so much for posting all those wonderul photos! I was disappointed to not go over this year, again. Next year three or four of our local SoCal bands are going and I'll be playing with one of them, Lord willing and the creek don't rise. Our bands tend to do North Berwick, Bridge of Allan, and of course Glasgow Green.