Trip to Pitlochry

New energy sources are something that people are always looking for, especially the ones that are environmental-friendly. They even have a proper name called sustainable energy. Nowadays, people tends to notice the importance of being “GREEN” because once the natural resources have been depleted, human may have nothing to use for most of the activities. Another disadvantage of using traditional fuels is that they pollute the environment in various ways, such as greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, air pollution..etc. Therefore, many countries dedicated money and time to discovery new ways to obtain energy sources.

Before attending to the study abroad program, I have already heard that Europe countries have been using many new methods to obtain energy. However, I have not seen them myself until today and I have been amazed!

View from the Dam

In the morning, my class gathered at the Dundee train station and boarded the train to travel to Pitlochry to see the hydroelectric dam. After arrived at Pitlochry, we walked to the dam which was not far away from the train station. As soon as we stood on the dam, a view that only one could see from the movie just suddenly appeared. I began to rush for taking out my phone because I had a feeling that the scene I saw was just an illusion and might be disappeared after a few seconds. Then, I took many photos from different angles and planned to send them to my parents to share that beautiful view.

The fish ladder

 I looked far away and saw the salmon ladder that professor Salvo mentioned. I was curious that whether or not that I could see fish from there. So, I headed towards the direction of the fish ladder with a friend. On the way, there were different boards that explained how the hydroelectric dam works for obtaining energy. When we arrived at the fish ladder, we were somewhat disappointed since we did not see any fish even though we knew that it was not the season for spawning. We even went to the observatory to see if we were fortunate enough to see salmon pass by or any kind of fish would be fine. Again, we were disappointed! Although we did not see the fish, the view at the dam was already surprising and awesome.

Boards about Dam and Power Station

When the time approached noon, we finished touring around the dam and started to feel hungry. Then, most of us went to the town centre and had our lunch. My friend and I walked around the centre after the mean and saw a few gifts shops and a tourist centre. Then, we started to wonder the reason that it had a tourist centre. Pitlochry did not seemed like a place that one would go for a vocation, but somehow we sensed that we might be wrong because they were different people from various places and also, the prices for meals were generally higher than in Dundee, the fourth largest city in Scotland. After ambled around the town centre, we went back to train station and on the way, we also stopped and adored the flowers along the road side. The short wonderful trip ended as we boarded the train that was going back Dundee!