Discovering the East Coast with our grandson

Bass Rock

School is out so we have taken our grandson away for a few days!  Not only is school out, but his Mum just started a new job so it might be helpful for him to be away anyway!

I had an idea that I would love to return to North Berwick.  It looked so much like a great holiday destination the time Alan and I stopped by to catch a boat trip to Bass Rock.  Since it is nesting season for Gannets, we decided this would be a good place to start!   Bass Rock is home to the largest Northern Gannet nesting colony in the world!  When I went on this trip a few years ago, I remember looking up and feeling like I was under an umbrella of Gannets!  It is quite a strange feeling. 

This was as close as I got to Bass Rock!
As long as the trip was successful, that was alll I wanted!

Boat trip was booked for 3pm Saturday and we collected our grandson and headed south east. Got there in plenty of time, but here is the hitch…..we had to park way out of town due to the size of the motorhome.  Nice big carpark at the rugby club.  Then I had to wait with Kenzie while they ran to the harbour and enjoyed the boat trip. This was all as planned and all worked out extremely well.  Kenzie and I were fine, I got to read, crochet, edit photos and read some more.  Kenzie mainly slept.  Well after 2 hours or so the travellers returned.

I did begin to wonder what was delaying them.  The boat trip was supposed to be an hour long and I figured the longest it would take to walk to the harbour would be half an hour. So after well over 2 hours passed, I tried not to worry.  And I was right not to worry!  When they returned, our grandson was so excited because there were also dolphins spotted and he had never seen dolphins in the wild.  And the captain took it upon himself to extend the length of the trip by 15 minutes so everyone could enjoy the dolphins!  How nice of him to do that!

We then all started out for our campsite in Dunbar. Wait!  I never saw North Berwick! Never got to spend time there.  So now I still need to return to this lovely town!

Reception at the Dunbar campsite

Since we had no idea where we were going or even if we were going due to family health issues, we waited too late to book campsites and only made our final decision the night before.   But that has a silver lining too. We discovered one in Dunbar with the camping club we don’t belong to. So we decided to join!  There was also a 2 night minimum, so that gave us a base for two nights.  AND we found out later, there is free wifi provided!  The other club we belong to does not offer this.  Hmmm…!

This really was a lovely and peaceful place to spend 2 nights.

What a lovely site too, our campsite faces Bass Rock, so we have been treated to beautiful sunsets both nights here.  Alan actually took fabulous ones, while I waited in with boy and dog.  But I like the idea that this is what I saw just sitting inside!