Giant lizards among the rocks

MY brother and I recently completed a walk to Darden Lough and then continued a short distance to Little Lough, where we bounced on the floating sphagnum moss growing on the water’s edge. From there we did some heather bashing to reach Darden Pike and the return path.
Midway down we stopped to examine some rock outcrops which we thought might possibly have contained some carvings, but instead we found (see photo) these ‘giant lizards’. I wonder if there are any more really wild animals like this in Northumberland.
Just to illustrate how The Northumbrian gets around the world, friends of ours were sitting on a beach in South Africa and just couldn’t believe it when they saw my letter about a winter walk to Milkhope in Issue 108.
- Peter D. Atkinson, Larchwood Avenue, Walkerville, Newcastle.