Day 2: Exploring

Today we woke up prompt at 6.40am and after battling for shower rights and getting ready, had breakfast and packed our bags for the day. We left the lodge and began our journey to Brodick castle and beach. As the day's bloggers, we recorded the different species of birds we saw (our goal is to spot 25 different species by the end of the week and we recorded 18 today!). On our walk through Brodick we came across a field of highland cows which were very hairy but cute!
After investigating a bronze age house and playing factual/running around games on the beach, we walked back to the lodge and had lunch.

 Once lunch was eaten and everyone had a quick change into comfy clothes, we headed out to see the Highland Games which was a scenic 30 minute walk away. When we arrived we watched the sporting events, inluding caber tossing, boulder and barrel lifting and track races. Aswell as this, we browsed different stalls, watched the scottish dancing competition and ate chips. The bag pipe band was playing throughout and it was impressive as they made it look so easy!

When we got back to the lodge we split into pairs and began brainstorming for our John Muir awards. We chose different subjects and started preparing a presentation on our them whilst Ollie, Javie and Subin made our dinner. They made chile served with rice, nachos and cheese...yum! We will hopefully now watch the Olympics and cheer on team GB!