Category: Edinburgh

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Sea Eagle at Edinburgh Zoo

Steller's sea eagle

This afternoon I went on the bus to Edinburgh Zoo. It’s a great photographic adventure visiting zoos. This particular zoo is on a hill side, although this was a little tiring in the intense heat of the sun it gave very different views of the animals. Like for example there was a walkway over the Zebra fields where you could get very close and look down on the animals. A lot of the creatures were asleep but I thought I would share this close up photo of a Sea Eagle. It was massive, maybe three or four feet from its head to the tip of its tail.

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Calton Hill – Edinburgh

Calton Hill - Edinburgh

After lunch I was stood watching the construction work that was going on near Waverley Station (Edinburgh’s centre train and bus station). I think that Edinburgh is one of the most hilly towns I have been too so far and I am always amazed by the drops and cliffs that can be seen around the city. The photo below was taken looking towards Calton Hill and shows Nelson”s Moment.

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Palace of Holyroodhouse

Palace of Holyroodhouse

Today was the day of doing the traditional tourist activity of travelling around the city of Edinburgh on the open top buses. We headed down to Waverley Station to pick up our tickets early this morning and then jumped on the first tour bus. We got very good seats upstairs but the weather was quite over cast. I took a lot of photos from this angle as it often gives a much better view of the famous tourist attractions around the city. After two or three hours on various bus tours we hopped off at the Palace of Holyroodhouse at the other end of the Royal Mile to Edinburgh Castle. We didn’t go inside as it was very crowded with coach loads of tourists but I managed to quickly grab this photo through the gates of the Palace.

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Shops on Princes Street Edinburgh

Shops on Princes Street Edinburgh

After such a long day of travelling yesterday we didn’t leave the hotel till quite late. By the time we had walked into the city centre the Bus Tours were extremely busy and had long queues for tickets. We decided that another day would be better, when we came out earlier. I did however get some interesting photographs of the wonderful architecture on Princes Street.