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Full day kayak tour of Brodick Bay, Corriegills & Corrie

While Brodick Bay is large, it has small, hidden gems such as Strathwhillan Burn, which we explored while waiting for the ferry from Troon to dock.

Next, we passed the unspoilt red sandstone shoreline to Corriegills and stretched our legs on the sandy beach in the bay, admiring the views of Bute and the Cumbrae isles.

Retracing our steps, we admired the majestic views of the castle and Goat Fell and crossed the bay to and the beautifully hand carved sandstone harbour, which was unusually occupied by a bilge keeled yacht.

Now heading further north, we passed Merkland bay and took a further break on a sandy inlet and watched curlews. Birdlife was plentiful the whole trip, with black guillemots, grey herons, oystercatchers and shags. Majestic gannets also dived for food as we had our sandwiches.

The weather being warm and calm, we were able to paddle some distance from shore, with great views of the ridge leading to Cioch na h-Oighe and the hamlet of High Corrie nestling amongst the trees.

Kayaks left safely beached in Corrie’s southern harbour, we walked to the doctor’s bath, carved out of the sandstone in Victorian times, by an early advocate of cold water therapy. Lastly, we admired the fossilised lightening strike, a relic from a storm in Permian times, 270 million years ago.

The tranquility the tree lined Rosa burn, meandering through the golf course was our final venture on our return to Brodick.