Scotland Holiday - Day 3
Walk To Sel Gil Cave, Drive To Castle Douglas And Walk Carlingwark Loch
This morning we went for a walk up to the entrances to Sel Gil Holes, it was a nice walk with lovely views. Back at the hut we packed our stuff up and reloaded the car. We headed to Ingleton for some lunch - they do great food in there, definately should have one near our caving club - I had chips and gravy in a giant yorkshire pudding!! We left Ingleton around 2.30 - Next stop was Scotland - our first place was Castle Douglas.
We arrived at Barncrosh just gone 4. We unloaded the car and found where we were staying - The Loft.
Our first task was to do some shopping - we had already found out that there was a Tesco in Castle Douglas! After doing the shopping and getting petrol we parked up atCarlingwark loch and set off on a little walk. Tim had seen on the map that there was a walk around the Loch. After a while we noticed we were walking further from the Loch and no longer walking round it! We carried on thinking the path would curve round - however it never did! We found ourselves out on a country lane! We followed the roads back round to Castle Douglas and back to the car. We had a look at the map to see where we had walked to find that there wasn't even a path around the Loch!! Tim had misread it!!
We set off back to The Loft however we didn't get far as the barrier on the car park was down. We drove up to it and it didn't move, I got out to see if you had to lift it manually - it wouldn't budge. I then saw a sign on the otherside that we had obviously missed saying that between 7pm and 10am you needed a card to access the car park!!! Oops by this time it was 7.30 so we were locked in! We went into the caravan site next to it and found someone who very kindy lent us their card to let us out!! Finally we could get on our way and make some dinner and do some washing!!
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