Cream o' Galloway - Simply Natural

Try one of our nature trail puzzles

To keep the young ones happy we've devised a number of puzzle trails to follow around the nature trails, hunting for clues and filling in sheets as you go.  These include:

            Bug Hunt: a puzzle booklet for the green route (1.75 miles).  Hunt for the bug symbols and fill in your booklet, learning fun-facts about mini-beasts as you go.  Costs £1.50 and includes a Cream o' Galloway pencil.  Suitable for ages 4-9.

            Explorer Trail: a similar booklet, following the shorter red route (1 mile).  Costs £1.50 and includes a Cream o' Galloway pencil.  Suitable for ages 7-10.

            Orienteering: the orienteering map shows two routes around the wildlife lochans and a third around the cycle routes.  Choose a simple route, roughly following the green trail or the bike route, or the trickier one which takes the intrepid explorer off-trail to nooks and crannies missed by most visitors.  Follow the map to find the orienteering posts, note what is written on each and finally solve the secret code!  Costs £1.50 and includes a Cream o' Galloway pencil.  Suitable for ages 7+.

            Smugglers' Trail:  Galloway was a haven for smugglers in days gone by, men who would secretly bring exotic goods into Scotland to sell on the black market.  Imagine you are a modern-day smuggler, trying to evade capture with a booty of illegal ice cream!  Follow the clues around the blue & gren trails (1.75 miles), fill the answers in on your sheet and discover the name of a famous Galloway smuggler.  If all goes well, your reward is a free scoop of ice cream and a certificate!  Costs £1.50 and includes a Cream o' Galloway pencil.  Suitable for ages 4-14.