Whiting Bay paths

Jan McGregor

Whiting Bay and District Improvements Association are currently working on improving the paths around Whiting Bay. Local interested people carried out an informal audit of the condition of the paths back in the Autumn in a ‘walk around Whiting Bay’ day. As a result of this, several paths have been improved, notably the Fairy Glen path. WB&DI are most grateful to Arran Access Trust for their support in this work.

It is hoped to produce a comprehensive map of the Whiting Bay paths in time for the Easter holiday season. These maps would be available in local shops for a small charge, and would enable holidaymakers to explore the beautiful environs of Whiting Bay, beyond the best known walks to Glenashdale falls and Giants Graves.

As a further improvement event, a ‘Beach Clean’ is planned for Sunday 6th March to which everyone is warmly invited. This will be a family event, and everyone is invited to meet at the putting green shed at 10.30 on Sunday 6th March. Please bring with you rubber or gardening gloves, secateurs and appropriate clothing and footwear. Black plastic bags and ‘picker-uppers’ will be provided and you will be rewarded with a bowl of soup. You will be allocated or can chose an area of the beach to concentrate on and all rubbish will be collected. We also hope to tidy up brambles and weeds around the bus shelters. The Whiting Bay bus shelters are distinctive and unique to Whiting Bay and are now our responsibility, so we want to maintain them. The more people who come and help, the easier the job will be, so please join us.