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The three lochs. WHY?

During, I think 2009 or 2010 I was lucky to have taken one weeks annual leave from my job with the NHS.  Since moving to Wigtownshire I had become friends with a group of gentleman, all of whom were older than me, they, like me, enjoy the hills and the freedom that it allows a person, to wander, camp drink? and generally simply be enveloped in natures wonder. Weeks before the week off I had visited a trail that sits above Glen Trool, the walk begins beside Bruce's stone high above Loch Trool and with no little effort leads one up past three Lochs, Loch Valley, Loch Neldricken and Loch Enoch, I believe that Loch Enoch is the highest Loch, not Lochan, in the country. To be so close to Newton Stewart, about 15 Miles, and encircled by Dumfries and Galloway and Ayrshire is brilliant. The Lochs are Located from the Solway Firth in the south to the boundaries of East and South Ayrshire.  A virtual wilderness, not Alaska of course, but in Scotland we value the opportunity to roam