Baden-Powell Council BSA
at the
2010 Blair Atholl Patrol Jamborette
Day 7 - July 19th - Edinburgh
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 Our first stop was Edinburgh Castle, for a guided tour (above) and a visit to the War Memorial and dungeons (left). |
 After lunch at the Haggis Cafe (haggis pizza is surprisingly good, but Mike H thought haggis in a chef's salad was a bit much), we visited the Camera Obscura. The Camera itself is a Victorian oddity - a periscope which displays images from the top of the tower onto a white bowl-shaped table (above). The visual tour of Edinburgh includes the ever-popular tourist swatting. |
The rest of the
building is full of optical miscellany. Here, Theo shakes hands with
a real image of himself in a spherical mirror. |
 Self-portrait in Infra Red Thermal Scan. I'm the one on the right. |
 One of this year's new attractions at the Camera Obscura is a path through a rotating tunnel of lights. The path doesn't move at all, but you lurch on through, convinced that the world is moving under your feet. It's really spooky, and everyone had to try several times. |
Our Dynamic Earth is
located at the foot of the Royal Mile, next to the Scottish
Parliament. It's an exhibition on the evolution of the Earth and its
environments.  |
 This glacier has been building for a decade, condensing the moisture from the air (mostly visitor's breath) into a giant ice block. |
 The Scouts visit Greyfriars Bobby's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard. |
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| At right, the Balmoral
Hotel in the evening twilight as we walked back to pick up our bus
home. The clock tower is a landmark in Edinburgh. The clock is kept
two minutes fast, so that people won't miss their trains at Waverly
Station next door.
Tuesday morning, we were picked up by coach and taken to Blair Atholl - on to the Jamborette! |
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