01 The walk shown in this web gallery starts from Palnackie and follows a figure of eight down the Almorness Peninsula as shown in the blue route in the map above. Palnackie is a small village so there is no problem parking here. There are two other possible parking places shown on the map the use of either of which would shorten the day's walk - one just north of Glen Isle and one just north of Almorness house.
On the day we did this walk (Tuesday 8th December 2010) Scotland was in the middle of a prolonged and deep cold spell. The corridor between Glasgow and Edinburgh was hit particularly badly by snow in the morning rush hour of Monday 7th bringing traffic chaos and motorway closures for several hours and abandonded cars were still being removed from the motorways 3 days later. Dumfries and Galloway had escaped the worst of this though.
We took almost five hours to the walk through spectacular winter scenery but then we were in no hurry.