We arrived in Downpatrick and picked up some usefull information in the Centre just below the church. This gave us enough information to head out along the Quoile to Saul and Raholp. The roads got very narrow round here and the traffic annoyingly busy so rather than try to park and visit on foot, we back tracked to the Quoile estruary for lunch.
Parked by the water-side and later walked up to the old quayside; this had been the main landing stage for sailing ships delivering goods into Downpatrick. Now with tidal barriers further down, the quay was surrounded by fresh-water and what had been the Quoile estuary was now a peaceful fresh-water lagoon, a thriving habitat for swans and other wildlife.
We returned to Castlewellan driving through Strangford just as the ferry was rushing to unload its cargo, Ardglass, where Pauline retraced her footsteps from a summer long gone, Killough, still unchanged from what I remember from my first outdoor experience in the youth hostel at Minerstown. and finally past Tyrella House to Clough.
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