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| The Forth Bridge |
After the Isle of May puffin boat trip cancelation, we quickly switched to Plan B for that day. We went on a different boat trip from a different port to a different island. Great time. Our sightseeing boat left from the village of Queensferry, which is located on the Firth of Forth; that is a huge estuary flowing into the North Sea. We passed under the Forth Bridge (see photo); opened in 1890, it is was the world's first major steel structure, and it held the record as the world's longest span. Fun fact, 6.5 million rivets were used to construct the bridge.
We cruised for an hour-and-a-half during which time we stopped for another hour-and-a-half on a very small island run by the Historic Environment Scotland organization; we are members. There, we spent time in Inchcolm Abbey, Scotland’s best-preserved group of monastic buildings. We also spent time avoiding being dive-bombed or pooped on by the thousands of nesting, noisy, and very aggressive sea gulls (really).
