Annbank Walk Dec 30th

This is a picture of either The Magnificent 7  (minus one) or  theSexy 6 who walked the Annbank circular walk along the river Ayr today.  I still cannot understand why it takes 2 hours  to walk to Burns monument  and only 35 minutes to walk back to Annbank.*

Report by Davie

Present Alan S, Ian, Gus, Billy, Malcom, Bob and Davie M and Holly

Because both Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall on a Wednesday this year, the normal walks were suspended but a suggestion was accepted that those who could make it could turn up for a  Monday walk instead.
Consequently the above Magnificent Seven turned up on a rather dreich and somewhat dark morning. This was Holly's first outing with the Ooters since the 27th of November due to her bout of nystagmus, but she seemed to cope well, although still not 100% recovered.
We decided to go on a clockwise direction, stopping as usual for coffee where the Coyle enters the Ayr and then for lunch at the Burns / Wallace Cairn where Davie saw a tawny owl, while Alan pointed out some buzzards. An extremely brisk pace was then set between the Cairn and the cars with Bob noting that it took only 35 minutes.  Although rain threatened a couple of times, the whole walk was completed in dry conditions in 3 hours 5 minutes. Our only complaint was that certain parts of the path were very, very muddy and a lot of remedial work needs to be done on it.
FRT was taken, as is our wont, in the Tap O' the Brae award winning Pub of 2019.

* the route to the Cairn followed the bends of the river Ayr so was longer, Bob. Have a look at the map Alan McQ provided at the end of this post