Allan, Davie C, Davie Mc, Dougie, Gus, Hugh, Iain, Jimmy, Kenny R, Malcolm, Rex, Robert
On an overcast morning we decided to do the familiar walk in a clockwise direction meaning that we would go the longer way out to the Wallace and Burns memorial at Oswald’s Bridge and return the shorter route on the Auchincruive side of the river. This walk has been covered many times before so what follows is only a brief description.
Walking down from Annbank we found the River Ayr Way adjacent
to Privick Mill and followed the path until a choice had to be made i.e. go
high up the steps, or stay low and negotiate the landslip. Some went high, some
went low. Those who had gone high reached the point where the two paths met
first, although they didn’t know it, and, assuming that the others were in front
of them (since the low path was the shorter in length), walked on, past the
fishermen’s shelter where we have often taken coffee, and stopped on Tarholm
Bridge. Coffee was taken here and by this time it had dawned on them that they,
in fact, were ahead of the others. It took a few minutes for the rest to arrive
claiming that the debris from the landslip, although not dangerous today, had slowed
them up a fair bit.
Crossing the bridge, we took to the path on the other side of
the river and made steady progress as underfoot conditions were good, even the
usual mucky bits were easily dealt with. By noon we were seated at the memorial
for our twenty-minute lunch stop.
Having walked across Oswald’s Bridge we followed the path
past Auchincruive noticing a sign for a café, only open Friday to Sunday, up to
our left. This is certainly new. We were back at the cars at one o’clock having
covered the seven miles in three hours, a quick time for this walk. The rain
forecast for later in the day had not arrived certainly was not imminent
according to overhead conditions.
FRT was taken outside at the Tap o’ the Brae where a pleasant
hour was spent discussing, amongst other things, the Georgian architecture of
the area! It should also be noted that Waspy has not lost his touch.
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