(S/E) From Dunure Harbour walk up the hill towards Castle Road - the main road through the village, passing the Dunure Inn on your right-hand side.
Turn left (North East) onto Castle Road and walk along the roadside pavement, through the village of Fisherton.
(1) When you reach A719/Ayr Road cross straight over onto the minor road next to Fisherton Primary School.
(2) After 270m at a path junction turn right (South West) onto a gravel track as indicated by the ‘Footpath’ sign.
(3) Before reaching Dunduff Farm turn left (South East) to start walking uphill again (notice the green arrow way markers on the fence to your right before the turn).
There are a couple of stiles to cross as you ascend.
(4) On reaching a small fishing loch 1km up the hill, the path forks, keep left (East) to stay on the open hillside.
(5) The track soon disappears but you want to follow the tree- and fence-line on your right to a stile at the end of the row of trees. Cross the stile.
(6) Turn left to continue in the direction you have been (East). Felled trees make it difficult here as the path has been covered up make your way over to the fence as best you can then turn right to follow it along a short distance to a kissing gate.
(7) Head north-east initially (towards the small hill), to avoid a marshy area to your right, then follow a set of quad bike tracks up and along the ridge to the trig point at the summit of Brown Carrick Hill.
From the summit head north-east, towards the radio masts. As you descend towards the radio masts, the path becomes less obvious - after going through a gate continue downhill aiming for a second gate which takes you onto the hill with the masts on it. Aim to pass close to the radio masts with them on your left-hand side.
(8) When you reach the end of the metal fencing, climb over the wooden gate then follow a faint grassy path down the hillside, ignoring the surfaced road on your left.
On reaching a minor road turn left (North West) and continue along it for approx 1.4 miles to reach A719. Carefully cross the road then turn left (West) to walk along the roadside verge for 280m.
(9) Take the first road on the right (North) towards Heads of Ayr Caravan Park.
As you reach the entrance, keep left to pass behind some caravans, looking out for a kissing gate on the right at the gap in the high embankment.
(10) Turn left (West) as indicated by the Ayrshire Coastal Path signage, to walk along the field edge beneath the caravan park and up onto the embankment of a disused railway.
After following the disused railway track bed for 1km, a kissing gate is reached which leads onto farmland.
Cross the field (West) to another gate close to the clifftops, then cross the next field, keeping the boundary fence close to your right-hand side, to reach another gate at the top of a steep gully.
(11) Take care descending the gully steps (hand-built by a team of volunteers and funded by the Rotary Club of Ayr).
Turn left (South West) at the bottom to walk along the rocky shoreline and across the Drumbain Burn at a waterfall.
(12) 400m further along the rocky shoreline the trail goes up a grassy gully onto another cliff-top section.
Instead of marker posts, look out for a series of white discs painted onto rocks to stay on the right course across the farmland and grassy clifftops.
(13) You will be led back down onto the shore through a gap in some rocks leading onto a sandy beach just north of the fishing village of Dunure.
Walk South across the beach and around Dunure Harbour, completing the loop (S/E)
