Aberdeenshire Pothole of the Year 2012?

We came across this hole in the Blairdaff-Kemnay road by daylight this morning (it's not exactly something you'd want to meet for the first time after dark, is it?)

I've no idea if there are (or have been) any bigger ones in Aberdeenshire during 2012, but even one pothole this big is surely one too many.