This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and welcome to part six of a Huithorn Way special.

I'm Mark Stephen.

And I'm Rachel Stewart.

And we're reaching the final section of this ancient pilgrim route,

which we've been following since Glasgow Cathedral.

Not step by step. It's more of a whistle stop guide to some of the places of interest along the way.

Last time we left you close to Gervyn on the Ayrshire coast and it's the coast we'll stick to

in this first section before we arrive at Whitton itself. The route we're following uses a number of sections of the Ayrshire coastal path,

which has been in existence for almost 20 years now.

Jimmy Begg has been there since the start,

and we met him on a lovely stretch south of Gervyn,

when he gave us a bit of an insight into what's involved in looking after a long-distance path.

In 2006, I was asked by Air Rotary Club to set up a project

and celebration of 100 years of Rotary International

and a sort of a short walk from Air to Gervyn to start with and then I thought well you could go all the

way down to Glenap and from Gervyn to Ayers find and for Air North to Skelemelies along the

coast we would make it in the Ayrshire Coastal Pass which we did say in 18 months we had the

thing completed having spoken to all the farmers and got the whole system going.

It's 106 miles long from Glenap to Skelmerly, but that includes diversions into Burnsey's Cottage

and into the Bruce's Castle at Donundonald with the start of the

Stuart dynasty and into Kowinning Abbey as well so with these detours added to it it's

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