Allan, Davie
C, Gus, Johnny, Kenny, Malcolm, Paul, Rex, Robert
Gus provided
excellent hospitality in Kilmarnock before we set off for Waterside and then to
Whitelee Wind Farm. Thanks Gus, much appreciated. (We may even have to add a
bacon roll competition to our ever-increasing social calendar).
Davie reads whilst holding his sausage! |
Setting off
from the car park about half past ten it felt even colder than last week as the
weather was raw and dreich, so it came as no surprise that the pace was
challenging as we followed the Lochgoin Circuit. This well-known track took us
between Lochgoin Reservoir and Dunwan Dam before doubling back to skirt
Lochgoin again. We left the Circuit just before it headed up to Lochgoin Farm
and Monument and instead turned off down towards Array H. We’ve come this way
before and it avoids some open ground at the farm and some doubtful underfoot
conditions approaching Craigenduntan Reservoir. When we got to H212 we could
see the fishermen’s hut, or what is left of it, and decided that we would have
lunch therein. This involved leaving the path and heading over some rough and
challenging conditions for about a hundred yards. When we emerged from the
rough stuff we realised we were on the wrong side of the burn and so we headed
up stream until we came to a wee weir which, as Kenny’s photo shows, was
crossed with care. (Actually it was slightly easier crossing this obstacle than
traversing the sheughs in the previously-mentioned rough stuff).
Room with a view - note the decking |
Lunch was
taken in the hut, whose whole front was missing. Fortunately the open end was
in the lea of the prevailing conditions and the hut afforded us good shelter
from the wind, not that it was that strong, but it was cauld.
From here it
was down the track, past the big house where a big dug came out to greet us,
and then down past the farm and on to the Kiwi Lodge road, where we made room
for Malky McCormick to pass in his multi-dented car. We were back at Waterside at quarter past two
and made our way to the King’s in Fenwick for FRT where we were met by Derval
Davie who had hurt his ankle again, but having had enough of sitting about the
house, had to get out to see the ‘boys’.
And for
those wondering, yes we did treat ourselves to some plates of chips! Bacon
rolls and chips in one day – haud us back!
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