Top five Ayrshire walking paths to enjoy as lockdown eases Ayrshire boasts some amazing scenery – and one of the finest coastal paths in the UK. Here’s our quick guide to five of the top stretches of this amazing trail – and what you can expect to discover.
Troon to Irvine With brilliant views and sandy beaches in Irvine you can visit Seagate Castle, the Scottish Maritime Museum and Glasgow Vennel, former home of Burns. The route is six miles, taking three hours. A longer detour route also takes in the Smugglers Trail and the famed Dundonald Castle, birthplace of the Stuart Dynasty of Scotland’s kings and queens… who later became the UK’s monarchs too.
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A DUMBARTON based boat recovery project has helped members of the local community build their own model ships that will be sailed down down the River Leven. The Skylark IX Recovery Project, which cares for one of the small, private boats which took part in Operation Dynamo during the World War II evacuation of Dunkirk, had to pause a community project to build a 22-foot coastal rowing boat at the Scottish Maritime Museum as a result of lockdown measures. But with their newly found free time the team have begun a Zoom led project making model boats with eight clients of drugs charity Alternatives’ Safe as Houses project, which is situated in Clydebank.
Irvine’s maritime museum has raised £39,835 for essential repairs for the world’s oldest floating Clyde-built vessel – more than double the £15,000 target. The Scottish Maritime Museum’s Keep the Kyles Afloat campaign was made possible by the #SupportOurMuseums initiative, where Crowdfunder UK and the Museums Association provide free support to museums amid the pandemic. David Mann, director of the museum, said: “We are blown away by the support for our campaign to get MV Kyles shipshape for its 150th anniversary in 2022. “Thanks to everyone who has donated, and the help of the #supportourmuseums initiative which made the campaign possible, we can ensure that this historic vessel remains part of Scotland’s living maritime heritage for decades to come. We can make essential repairs, create new interpretation and now we can be even more ambitious, working on the engine so Kyles can sail under its own power for first time in over a decade.