Today's merry group. |
Always have a picture of the leader. |
Today's merry group. |
Always have a picture of the leader. |
On top of the world!! |
That is the teacher in the middle. |
The plane in the hangar. |
Preparing for take off. |
The instrument panel. The orange screen is the GPS. |
Over Ardrossan wind farm. |
Kingarth standing stones. |
A little sparrow joined us for lunch. |
An Australian Zimbra microlite. |
Plane put away to end a most memorable day. |
The "Pilot" was a true leader today. |
Walkers at the Crauford Monument. |
These guys made it to the summit of Grey Hill. (plus wee me) |
On our way down to the cottage at Drumfairn. |
Farmer got his hay wrapped before the rain came on. |
Today's well wrapped up group. |
We had joint leaders today. Today Saturday June 23 a bakers dozen of walkers left the car park at the south end of Girvan to climb to Grey Hill. (297M). This is a walk that we have done before and was beautifully documented by the Newton Stewart blogger back in May 2011. The weather was grey and cloudy when we started with the rain not far away when we looked out over the sea towards Ailsa Craig. First we climbed the Byne Hill (214M) before going over the moor towards Grey Hill when the rain came on so some of the group took shelter whilst a few of us went on to climb to the summit. It was really fairly miserable at this point so we returned to the rest of the group to have our lunch stop. From here we went down past the cottage at Drumfairn where we picked up the track to take us back to our starting point. A nice 7 mile walk ,a pity about the weather but when you plan these walks you have no control over the elements. Thanks to our joint leaders today who did their best to keep our spirits up even in the pouring rain. |
A view of Loch Ryan |
Trig point on Penderry Hill. |
A distant Ailsa Craig. |
Your truly managed to get in his own blog!! |
Todays group at "Wee Ellies Cairn" |
Kilmarnock Rocket was the walk leader. |
Cheer up the teacher will be here soon! |
On top of Barony Hill |
Looking down to Girvan and a distant Ailsa Craig. |
Penwhapple resevoir and wind farm. |
Erecting another turbine. |
My fellow walkers. |
Climbing up Ben Narnain. |
Our first summit |
Lochs Lomond,Arklet and Katrine were all visible. |
You could almost touch the clouds. |
Waiting for the bus in Arrochar. |
Starting out on a dry morning. |
That sooned changed |
Todays group in the gloom. |
The pilot was demoted today to "Navigator" |
Our starting point |
The local kirk. |
Glenlee power station. |
Looking down to the town. |
Fish ladder at one of the power stations. |
Suspension bridge over the Water of Ken. |
R.H.S. reading the gravestones. |
Very green "Heads of Ayr" |