This afternoon I had the pleasure of taking a group from the Wigtown Book Festival down to the Crook on a walk. They had attended Mathew Curry's talk about his poetry and how Galloway had inspired him.
We came across a nice party of 5 Ruff in the saltmarsh pools feeding as we walked down Skylark Walk always a delight to see them and five is my personal best and as far as I know the Crooks.
Tomorrow I have another guided walk so I do hope they are there again and with the tide a few more I hope.
Thanks to the visitor to the Book Festival that introduced themselves in the county buildings it is always nice to put a face to a name. Not that I remember the name and come to it the face except to say I think I know that person. So I must apologise should I look blank next time we meet. The Wife tells me it is a man thing I think it is my age.
Paul
I admit to being the anonymous Wigtown resident! see Paul's comment on 29 Sep re the state of the Crook access road. Since then there's been really good progress, and DGFirst have agreed to repair the road, and probably fairly soon. It will not be resurfaced - at prohibitive cost - but patched and filled to what we hope will be an adequate standard. It certainly can't be worse than it is at present! Will keep you posted.