Mull of Galloway

And we work in partnership with lots of organizations.

A really good example is the Mull of Galloway Trust.

Um, you know, the, the cottages around the lighthouse are now owned by them.

You know, there's a, a visitor center, and they've got the former-- well, the engine room for the, um, the foghorn, which they, they run and operate and, uh...

I also saw the Glasgow steamer Orion sail on her fatal voyage.

She was stranded on the Mull of Galloway, and many lives

were lost.

This was in

But I, uh, decided that I would plan a route that would combine walk highlands, because of the tracks there already, and also taking us to places that had water horse stories, rivers for kelpies, lochs for each-uisge, the Gaelic water horse.

And this was from Mull of Galloway to Dunnet.

All the, all the way right up to Dunnet Head in, in the very north.

The route was effectively s- over 600 miles.

But I, uh, decided that I would plan a route that would combine the walk highlands because of the tracks there already and also taking us to places that had water horse stories, rivers for kelpies, lochs for each-uisge, the Gaelic water horse.

And this was from Mull of Galloway to Dunnet.

All the, all the way right up to Dunnet Head in, in the very north.

The route was effectively s- over 600 miles.

Forty percent of the lead mined in the British Isles in the nineteenth century came from the Isle of Man.

And at one time, they were looking to see whether the, uh, the Mull of Galloway coal seam ever came to the Isle of Man.

That's the reason that the brine work started, because while they were seeing whether the coal seam came under, uh, the, uh, the, the, the Firth between here and the, the Mull of Galloway, uh, they hit a brine lake underneath and a very pure brine lake.

That's where the Ramsey Salt Works came from.

That's where the brine pipe came from.