Woke up and ate breakfast at the b&b. We have been eating a traditional Scottish breakfast typically. Bacon, poached egg, haggis, bacon, potato scones and roasted tomatoes. Very good breakfast!
After breakfast we jumped in the car and headed down the peninsula of Scotland towards Port Logan, where great grandpa Cosh used to live. It was raining a lot this morning so we broke out the umbrellas and rain jackets. Because we were driving through very thick forest and towards the middle of no where basically I didn't have service so we were relying on the map Lori bought and her directions... Ya... She did good though a we made it to Port Logan after about an hour ish of driving.
Oh my god is Port Logan absolutely beautiful! It's an extremely small town, literally only 2 streets. But they are right on the ocean, it has a lighthouse and a long rocky walk way that has the ocean on either sides of it. And there are huge rocks also just off to the side of the town. With yellow flowers blooming everywhere around the town. It's absolutely gorgeous.
Then we went over to the house grandpa used to own, it's called "bridge house" because there is a bridge going out across the top of his house to the ground below. (Pictures below to explain better).
After we got pictures in front of the house we hopped back in the car and continued on to Kirkmaiden cemetery. Also forgot to mention that from Port Logan if you look out on the ocean you can see Ireland! That's how close and how far down onto the coast Port Logan is.
We got to Kirkmaiden and went in to look around and see the Cosh's that are buried there. We found 4 graves that belong to Cosh's but we found 1 that stood out than the rest. With the dates that match up and the names we think that it belongs to dad's great great grandma. The rest we aren't 100% sure about.
We left Kirkmaiden and came across a smaller town and stopped at a little cafe for lunch. I know I'm surprised we didn't stop at a pub. That's a first. After lunch we asked the waitress if there was anything to see in the area and she recommend the lighthouse at the mull of Galloway, it's the farthest point in Scotland that you can go to, and we were only 20 minutes away.
So we left for the lighthouse and were driving on very tiny streets again. I haven't really mentioned the streets here. The streets here don't have shoulders, and some roads only have 1 strip of road, so when someone comes from the other direction you have to slow right down and both pull as far over to the left as you can just to get by one another. With that being said I have posted pictures of the car we are driving because I haven't yet. Oh my word it looks like a clown car!
We got up to the lighthouse and the area was very pretty, it's ocean as far out as you can see, with Ireland to the left just a ways. We went to the top of the lighthouse and looked out, very beautiful aswell. It's nice and warm up there and Lori said she wanted to work there because then she could lay in the sun all day like a cat.
After the lighthouse we left and went back to Stranraer. Relaxed in the b&b for a bit then went out for some supper. Then back to the b&b to sleep and get ready for the next day because tomorrow we are off to Ireland!
Hi...we share the same ancestors!
ReplyDeleteDavid Cosh married Margaret Rankin - sister of Elizabeth Rankin, my g-g-grandmother.
David was Margaret's second husband - Margaret and Elizabeth lost both their husbands in the same fishing accident.
I'm only a couple of hours drive from Stranraer.