Balcary Bay and Rough Island Walks

Another Wednesday and after our superb week in the Cotswolds we are back to our regular Wednesday walk. Only Peter, Tom, and myself available today but we headed off to one of my favourite walks namely Balcary Bay and the coastal walk to Rascarrel Bay. The plan was to do this 5 mile walk, then have lunch at the Balcary Hotel followed by another short walk at Kippford. Due to taking a wrong turning on the return half of the Balcary walk we extended the distance by about another mile and a half so it was nearly 1.00pm when we had our lovely lunch in the Hotel. We sat in the conservatory overlooking Balcary Bay and were served an extremely nice lunch.

Balcary Bay

The Galloway Hills in the distance

We met these guys plus about another 6 of their friends on the clifftop.

This is Loch Mackie

Robins Rigg Wind Farm in the Solway and we counted over 60 Turbines. This is a much better place to locate these wind turbines than on land.

Balcary Bay from the Hotel



After lunch we headed out to Kippford and walked accross the causeway to Rough Island which sits in the Urr Estuary overlooking both Kippford and Rockliffe.

The highest point on Rough Island giving lovely views over to Kippford and Rockcliffe

Rockcliffe

Looking up the Urr Estuary towards Kippford