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Day 13 … “Deep Sea Adventure”

July 15th, 2006

Helloooo….

Today we awoke at Pitlochery to visitors… a family of ducks and ducklings came to visit Clive(see photos) very cute!

After a hearty breakfast we set off South again down the A9 to Edinburgh our last stop off before heading back to sunny old Wigan(hmmm…. bah)… I think we will be away again soon!

Cat is feeling much better today and is back to her usual smiley self too btw.

So we eventually sailed Clive into dock at Edinburgh and before entering the madness that is city living we called off under the old Fourth Bridge to see the Sea Creatures at the Deep Sea World centre.

Deep Sea Word is kind of an old quarry with buildings underground so when you arrive there all you see is a car park… wierd… surely there should be stuff?? … then you get the whole idea and find the steps down into the ‘Deep’.

At DSW there are all kinds of fish both UK and foreign… tons of other stuff like tree frogs, shrimps, crabs, anenomes, seals and some pretty major sharks, rays and some Pirhana with those nasty pointy teeth.

Underground, DSW is on different levels and you can walk down into the depths and into a glass viewing tunnel where you are underwater for some distance and above and around you there swim all kinds of fish including BIG sharks and rays and even a couple of divers.

After seeing tons of cool stuff in the tunnel we went outside to see the seals which are very cool.

The seals here have been bred in captivity and will never be reintroduced into the wild as they have no survival skills(except for dialing Dominos) but the Seal Sanctuary here also looks after sick wild seals too which are nursed back to good health before being released into a local seal colony.

The seals that are resident here are called Morag and Heather and they are mum and daughter… they are very friendly seals and love to shake a paw/fin whatever and roll over and jump for a ball and stuff in exchange for fish… cool life… free fish for tricks

The people looking after the Seals looked like they totally enjoyed their work and being with the seals which was real nice too.

Ok… so… when we had done the whole fishy thing we jumped back into Clive and headed into town over the Fourth Road Bridge to find our hotel… yeah we know… another girly card but we kinda planned a couple of days in Edinburgh and we kinda like to ‘roll’ in if you get the picture and you can’t do that very easily if you’re camped 6 miles away.

Anyhow… to cut a very long story short… 1st hotel was pretty bad… so we swapped…. 2nd hotel was a joke… so we swapped… 3rd hotel(Novotel)… totally top… location is a bit of a downer as we’re used to being right on the main street but hey ho can’t have everything and at least this one has locking windows, a TV that works, lightbulbs, two bathrooms, neither of which crawl and even a few extras like AirCon and a Mini-Bar(Rock n Roll).

When we had exhausted the hot water and played with all the shiny gadgets in the room we wen’t for a few beers in town and a sexy Pizza and now we’re back here for a quick blog and then to sleep(…zzzZZZ) as we’re crackered and up early for full Scottish Breckie(we are looking like the Rolly-Pollys since going away) and then off out for the day as it’s our next to last …for now at least

So catcha later and check out todas photos here.

C+S

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