Thursday, 20 February 2014
Coastwalk
The next fifteen years
Time to put circle another date in the diary: Tuesday 20 February 2029. I will be fifty-seven years old. It will be thirty years since my first coast walk.
Sometime before then we hope to complete our walk round the perimeter of this island, celebrating with a group to join up the whole circuit in Gretna.
Before then, there are two to three thousand miles of walking to be done.
Highlights will include:
- Connecting with our other segments in Leith and Corpach
- The Elie chain walk
- Raising a glass to Michael Marra in Dundee's Tay Bridge Bar
- Turning our backs on Trump's folly on the Menie Links
- Remembering Local Hero in Pennan
- Finishing Lands' End to John O'Groats the long way
- Visiting the island's most northerly and most westerly points
- Turning the final corner at desolate Cape Wrath
- Popping in on the remote community of Scoraig
- Keeping a safe distance from Gruinard ("Anthrax") Island
- Walking barefoot on the white sands of Arisaig
- Learning to love the back-and-forth of sea lochs on the west coast
- Figuring out the Electric Brae
- Catching our first glimpse of England again across the Solway Firth
We'd be delighted for company on some of it — please get in touch, whether you fancy walking for a mile or a whole week!
Posted by pab at 17:40
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