Bass Rock

Wednesday
After Edna's fall yesterday, we were quite anxious to see how she would feel this morning, so we were quite relieved to hear from Bernard that she'd had a good night, and felt well enough to continue with their stay, though they said they would skip the evening concert but go to the lunchtime concert tomorrow. So we planned a quiet day, driving along the southern coast of the Firth of Forth to North Berwick. We stopped at a couple of places to get out and enjoy the scenery.  Bass Rock is a steep-sided volcanic rock, 351 ft at its highest point and is a little over a mile offshore offshore. The Bass Rock is home to an incredible 150,000 gannets, the UK's largest seabird, making it the largest single island gannet colony in the world and described by Sir David Attenborough as one of the Twelve Wildlife Wonders of the World. We had lunch at the Seabird Center in North Berwick and Roger, Jen and I had hoped to take a boat trip out to Bass Rock, but unfortunately they didn't have sufficient number of people signed up for them to run the boat, so we were very disappointed. So instead we went for a wander about the town, then went for a drive around, trying to get different vantage points of the Rock. We ended up at this beautiful quiet beach at the end of a little lane, and left Edna sitting in the car, while the rest of us got out for a walk on the beach. By then it was time to head back to Edinburgh and deposit Edna and Bernard at the hotel, while the three of us drove out to the village of Haddington where Laura's choir concert was being held, in St. Mary's Parish Church. We had a late dinner back in Edinburgh at a Thai restaurant.

Worth checking out in large.

One year ago: Path to the beach