Aviemore 18 August

We were up early again today for breakfast at 7:30 before heading off on our trip to the Highlands. After a beautiful day weatherwise yesterday, today was wet & miserable for the entire way. We stopped off at St Andrews at the Home of Golf & had an hour to check out the area for an hour. We went for a bit of a walk and then went & got a coffee overlooking the golf course.

St Andrews

We boarded the coach and continued on to Pitlochry for our lunch break. Some chose an option castle tour but we didn’t go. We walked down to the Pitlochry Dam & Hydro Electric where there are some salmon ponds. We were able to view salmon & trout swimming upstream through the viewing room. Some took quite a while to get through to the next pond. The fish were huge.

Pitlochry

We walked back up into the town area & had a cup of tea before heading back to the coach at 3:00pm. We headed off to collect the others from the castle and head on to Aviemore where we will be staying for 2 nights. A few decided to go to watch a sheep dog demonstration but we decided to stay in out of the rain. We had dinner at the restaurant as a group tonight and then headed off for an early night after the big day yesterday.