Davie C, Andy, Paul. Robert, Jimmy, Gus, Alan.
Having studied his weather app, Robert had taken an
executive decision on Tuesday evening to abort the proposed walk from West Kilbride
to the Hayley Brae, and instead we opted for the wet-weather standby of the
Portencross circular.
Since we have done this walk several times this is a very
brief report.
Dark clouds loomed in the northern sky and within 10 minutes
of departure, as we walked along the tarmaced road, badly flooded in places,
the rain started. Those who hadn’t
already donned waterproofs did so and we were prepared for the forecasted day
of rain.
However, the prognostication was wrong and the rain soon
eased off. The remainder of the walk was done in the dry and we even had spells
of sunshine. Robert said something about
his app having only given him a forecast for Ardrossan for Wednesday evening but we all agreed he had made the right
decision, since the planned route is very wet even when it’s dry and the recent
rains would have made it extremely difficult.
Suffice to say we stopped for coffee and (early) lunch at
the usual places. We all looked at the Latin inscription on the sundial and
admired the gnomen. As the newcomer, Gus was invited to translate. His
translation sounded plausible, but since Davie M wasn’t present no one could
come up the Ooters’ official translation.
For a possible first,
we returned to the car park (not long after 1 pm) dry! In a rare display of
Ooters’ positivism we all agreed it could have been worse.
Refreshments were taken
in Ardrossan at the Laurieston.
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