A Rowanburn Walk and 4 Intrepid Explorers from Dumfries

Our plan for todays walk had been to go to New Lanark and walk the Falls of Clyde but the weather forecast was not good so we all decided to save it for a better day hopefully in October. It involved most of the Last of the Summer Wine Walkers so it will give us something to look forward to. Instead Tom and I headed to Rowanburn for a 5 mile walk round by The Fairy Loup.

A seat on the bridge just before we headed down to the Fairy Loup

Near the Fairy Loup we met up with Bill and Lorraine Frew out for their morning walk. 

Plenty of water in the Byreburn today making the Fairy Loup spectacular

At Canonbie we met these 8 Rams or Tups as we call them locally in a field next to the road. They will maybe soon be going for sale to eventually do their job in serving the sheep for next years spring lambs.  

Back at Rowanburn at the end of our 5 mile walk we met up with these 4 walkers from Annan and Dumfries. They call themselves The Intrepid Explorers and the guy on the right is Trevor Muir who many years ago used to work in The Langholm Post Office and he lodged with Ian and Marion Rodger then. 

Trevor was keen to get his photograph taken with Tom and myself as he used to remember playing Squash against Langholm in the 80s.

This is the view from Byreburn Bridge down the Esk and I reckon it's one of the finest views in the area. 

This is Bill's Retriever Ailsa and she is a rescue dog and just so beautiful.