Hundreds of families flocked to a sunny Bught Park in Inverness on Saturday for thrills and spills at an inflatable adventure park.
The event, part of this year’s summer festivals programme, involved a range of attractions from an inflatable bouncy castle and a giant slide to bungee trampolining.
Children, aged between two and 13 were quick to join the fun and queued up to sample their favourite rides.
Clive MacPherson, of Kinmylies, was one of the parents in attendance with his three-year-old son, Leon, and his girlfriend Kerrie Duggan and niece Sophia.
He said: “It was a great day out. There were about four or five different rides and the organisers had a good idea in that everyone just paid for a wristband at the entrance and that meant the kids could go on anything they wanted.
“Leon enjoyed the SpongeBob Squarepants bouncy castle the most. He certainly slept well on Saturday night.
“There was some queuing for all of the rides because it was so busy. There were easily hundreds of people there, if not thousands. I would definitely go back with the kids again next year”.
The inflatable adventure park was due to open on Wednesday, but was postponed for a day due to thunder and lighting storms, with the event finishing up yesterday afternoon.
It is part of the three-month summer festivals programme which this year provided a number of new events for locals and visitors to enjoy.
Also making their debuts this year were the Inverness jazz festival, the Highlands fashion and lifestyle show, the Highland trucker of the year ceremony and the Highland haggis hurling championships.
The Inverness Highland Games and Inverness gala event last weekend was also a big success, drawing an estimated 10,000 people, with the TruckNess vehicle exhibition on Bught Road proving a big hit.
Belladrum, Groove Loch Ness and the Black Isle Show are still to come next month, along with the inaugural Croy “karties” race, where people fight it out to win a race in their homemade machines.
The summer programme will end in September with the Northern Meeting piping competitions at Eden Court, as the prelude to the spectacular Highland Military Tattoo at Fort George and the city’s oldest event, the kirking of the council at the Old High Church.
