Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

 

 A walk in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens today

 

We loved this chair. It was really comfy  

 

 

This is the Edible Gardening Project

  

The colours in the hedge from the sunlight was amazing

Such delicate flowers

  

 

There is now a charge to visit the Hot Houses although the garden is free

 

This fossilized tree was fantastic

  

 

The squirrels were very tame

 

Andy Goldworthy's Slate Hole Wall

 

Inverleith House which has a good view of the castle

Another Andy Goldworthy piece. Slate Cone

and Arthurs Seat (one of my walks this year)

  

Cramond Island

Crammond Island near Edinburgh
It is only possible to walk to the island when the tide is out. It's almost a mile

 

The steps are a bit tricky

 

These concrete teeth along the causeway were to prevent submarines getting past. There were nets on the other side of the island to stop them

 

The bird life was busy. There are quite a lot of photo's of them. Sorry you might get bored 

 

Black Headed Gulls with winter plumage

 

 

A noisy Oyster Catcher. We saw quite a few empty Oyster Shells.

 

 

Barnbougle Castle

 

 

 Grey Heron

 

 

Redshank

 

 

A few photo's of a Curlew

 

 

There are buildings still on the island from when it was used to defend the Forth

 

 

The island was bigger than I expected

 

 

The Forth Bridges

 

 

Arthurs Seat and Edinburgh Castle in the distance

 

 

Looking towards Fife

 

 

Inchmickery, looking like a Battle ship. The island was used in the Ian Banks film, Complicity

 

Knots