Our adventures in Scotland, Part 3

Our next adventure was a day at Scotland's Secret Bunker near Crail, followed by an afternoon at the Scottish Deer Centre near Cupar.

The Secret Bunker was fascinating, with stairs and a long cold tunnel leading down from an innocuous farmhouse to the nuclear bunker. The bunker has hermetically sealed 3-ton blast proof doors and a 3-meter thick outer shell of solid concrete reinforced with tungsten rods. This is where Scotland's senior ministers and key civil servants would have been evacuated to in the event of a nuclear attack. It was definitely worth a visit and you can see more at http://www.secretbunker.co.uk/

The afternoon was spent at the Scottish Deer Centre, though the highlight of the visit was not deer but wolves and red squirrels. Only Paul saw the red squirrels and he got a very good photograph of one as it scampered up a tree. We all did a treetop walk to see if we could see more red squirrels, but they proved to be very elusive critters, so we headed off to see the wolves being fed. This was lots of fun - the wolves were very impressive, particularly Lupo who is a Canadian wolf and the alpha male. While the wolves were being fed we were given a talk about the plans to reintroduce them into the wild, as part of a wider plan to control the red deer population. Paws crossed they will re-introduce bears into the wilds of Scotland - we are very partial to a bit of venison!