By the end of the day we had achieved 2 walks and survived a monsoon! Ok, a bit of an exaggeration on the "monsoon" front but boy did it rain!
Luckily, we started off with a sunny walk in Invergowrie and saw various delights - Hagrid's Summer Home (we suspect!); a felled tree cut into sections like a swiss roll, displaying the tree's rings and then we passed the Scottish Crops Research Institute where the Tayberry was created by cross-breeding a blackberry with a raspberry.
While we were waiting for a bus to get us to Balgay Hill in time to meet the Ranger Service for a tour of the area, the heavens opened. At Balgay we were shown the Paupers Grave where 10,000 people were buried from 1870 - to a shockingly recent 2004. The views from the top of the hill are breathtaking - we recommend you have a look for yourself! We also saw red and grey squirrels foraging and finally we ended up at the Mills Observatory. The dome of the Observatory is made paper-mache and is the only one of its kind left surviving in the UK. Not a lot of people know that!
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