North Berwick Seabird Sanctuary

Another wonderful daytrip to the beautiful seaside to visit North Berwick (though the scots do not pronounce many w's that do not start the word, so it is 'Berrick'). Very nice town, had a much more relaxed feeling than most towns here. Things were more spread out, not so crowded. Great views of the sea, and is near several isles. We went to the seabird sanctuary, which does not have any birds, but instead has wonderful high def cameras placed on the isles where there are large breeding colonies of various breeding colonies including puffins. At the right time of year, (fall-winter) there are also breeding grey seals. The cameras have great focus, zoom, and cover large portions of the isles. They let you get right up with the birds, without disturbing them. A great system.

The town also has two nice castles, an old abbey, and an extinct volcano that gives a great view of the city kind of like arthurs seat in edinburgh. It had what looked like acacia trees growing on it...which would be weird in Scotland, we don't really knowhow to explain that.