Machrihanish Dunes

Today (Sunday), we started out by driving north from Blackwaterfoot along the single track road that runs along the coast of Arran up to Lochranza to catch the ferry across to Kintyre. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, more beautiful scenery along the way. We arrived in Lochranza, which is situate right along the coast with a backdrop of steep mountainsides.
Lochranza

After a short half hour ferry ride, we arrived on Kintyre and again "single tracked" down along the coast and across Kintyre to Campbeltown.

Kintyre

After a quick stop at the Redknowe House to drop off our bags, we headed for our course today, Machrihanish Dunes. Machrihanish Dunes is only about a year old, and was built on a site of Special Scientific Interest, which meant that they could only level the tee boxes and do a minimal amount of work to sculpt the greens. The fairways are just as they were when they started the project. The greens had a few elephants buried underneath them, but the course is right along a beautiful stretch of beach with high dunes and we again had a great time. After the round, the fog moved in and by the time we left, the visibility was down to a few hundred yards. The fog followed us back to town and although we had dinner right along the harbor in Campbeltown, we couldn't see much of the water. Tomorrow we play at Machrihanish, which was designed by Old Tom Morris in the mid-late 1800's.