Pond Dipping at Castle Fraser

The National Trust were holding a Pond Dipping Session at Casle Fraser so we headed down to give it a go. The Tree Huggers turned us away at first as we were supposed to phone and pre-book, and they were apparently fully subscribed. We hung around long enough for guilt to set in, and they finally let us join their gang to head through the nature walk down to the pond.

I told him those stepping stones were slippy, but will he listen!

The pond dipping was really quite interesting, and the Rangers were very good pointing out and explaining all the beasties we caught. I think J enjoyed it more than B, she couldn't cope with all the flies. I thought she was going to end up in the pond at one point, running and flapping away from a bluebottle.