03. Jul 2025

Ballantrae - Stranraer

Photo 1: "Cow blockade"
The old gospel song says it this way: "Some through the waters, some through the flood, some through the fire..." Today I had to get through the cows. When the lead cow took a step towards me, I sang my pilgrim song, looked down and showed it that I was submissive. A second mother cow then used her head to protectively nudge the younger ones aside, giving me access to the exit gate...

Photo 2: My last high path in Scotland

Photo 3: Tomorrow I will be on a ferry like this to Belfast, North Ireland.

Photo 4: On the top of the hill overlooking the coast was a World War II fortification and gunnery now peacefully occupied... by cows!

Photo 5: This is were I took my lunch break before going down the hill. I would then walk 2.5 hours in the rain and mostly on a busy road to the Port City of Stranraer. There was supposed to be a foot path along the coast that was once a railroad track, but it had become a junge with an overgrowth of thorns, brush and weeds. My foot journey through Scotland has come to an end... 495 kilometers. Thank you Jesus for bringing me through to this milestone.