Walk no. 203: Commonwealth Pool to Musselburgh via Innocent Railway path, etc.
Date: Wednesday 23rd March 2016
Distance: 5.25 miles approximately
Meet at: Commonwealth Pool (outside main entrance in Dalkeith Road)
Finish at: Fisherrow Harbour, Musselburgh
Thirty seven Strollers met up at the Commonwealth
Pool to walk to Fisherrow
Harbour, Musselburgh. It
was very good of the schools to come along and entertain us with a swimming and
diving contest while we were sitting and having coffee and bacon rolls. Dragging
ourselves out in to the overcast day we set out on the stroll to Musselburgh. Walking
along the Innocent Railway and passing Prestonfield Golf Course, home to a
monastery at one time, watching the flight of the heron (sounds a good title
for a book) and passing a tree full of bras. Obviously a hen night got carried
away.
On past Duddingston Golf Course and down to Bingham and the Jewel, so
called because of the quality of the coal mined there. It was there we
encountered a field of shopping trolleys too numerous to count that had
obviously escaped from their normal habitat at Asda. Crossing the Borders Railway
line we continued on down the path of the Brunstane or Braidburn or Niddrie
burn depending on what map you look at, passing the private golf course at
Milton Glen and the big houses with some features including a dry-stane wall.
Finding a tree filled with trainers, obviously the marathon runners having had
enough and throwing them away.
Spotting a rare looking bird in a tree which turned
out to be a pigeon, must get new glasses before the next walk, it was then time
to finish the walk at Fisherrow Harbour and find a cafe for a well earned tea
and cake.. Hope you all enjoyed the rather quicker stroll than normal and thanks
again to Drew for organising the walk. Look forward to seeing you all at
Kinross in April.
