Dunlop to West Kilbride via Dalry & Hunterston Castle

It's amazing how quickly you can depart the city confines, and get into the shires around Glasgow. On a Sunday, from Pollokshaws West train station, there is the Killie Express which gets to Barrhead in 6 minutes and Dunlop in Ayrshire 16 minutes later. Before I know it, I am enveloped by the bucolic sounds of nature, with not a single car in sight. 

The route here is one that I have done before ending up in Fairlie. This time instead of getting the train back from Fairlie, I turn south towards Hunterston and head for West Kilbride.

 The wonderful Dusk Water...

Approaching Dalry. We're headed straight through up into the hills behind and to the left. 

Once you get out of the brainwashed city you can see people without stabilisers: no pets, no tech, just feet and brain.

 The high street in Dalry.

 The library is on the right (next to the betting shop).

The beautiful desolation of the Old Fairlie moor road which will take us from Dalry down to the coast.

Las Islas Encantadas: Great Cumbrae, Little Cumbrae, Bute & Arran. (You can just see Millport on Great Cumbrae at centre right).

 The diminutive Hunterston Castle.

 Coming in to West Kilbride...

 The main street in West Kilbride. I love the way the spires of the churches frame the hills.

The Train station.