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  • Festival of the Sea 2026

    Festival of the Sea 2026

    Saturday 15th August!

    This year promises to be really festive…

    • Great live acts
    • Great raffle prizes
    • Mystic Mermaid
    • Maybole Pipe Band
    • Great local food from The Harbourside Cafe and The Anchorage
    • Great pop-up kitchens

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    Celebrate with us –

    New investment in the Lighthouse and Harbour!

    Getting here

    There’s always huge demand for our wee festival, so we’ve had to set up a traffic flow.

    official ARA order number 10944
    • The entrance to the village from Ayr (the north) will be closed off.
    • The entrance to the Festival is from the south.
    • If you’re coming from Ayr drive past the school (watch out for the new speed bump), up the hill, and watch for the signs towards the festival.
    • If you want an overnight stay for your motorhome in Kennedy Park, please contact khpcbookings@hotmail.com for information.
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  • Interesting Skies Week

    Interesting Skies Week

    A 90% Solar Eclipse this Wednesday (12th August) around 6:00 pm

    Path of eclipse from ‘time and date’ website.

    Cloud cover

    The weather forecast is not too bad – but not great!

    In Dunure we should get a better than 90% eclipse: there will still be a wee sliver of the sun visible.

    If you want to view it be sensible! Looking directly at the sun will permanently damage your eyes, even if it’s only 10%!

    You need special solar viewing glasses. Don’t use ordinary sunglasses no matter how dark. There’s good advice here, from the UK Health Security Agency.

    One way to view the eclipse sensibly is to use a simple colander: place a piece of paper where the light from the sun can pass through it. Just don’t look directly through the colander at the sun…

    You have not one but many eclipses!

    Then we have the meteor shower

    The night of the 12th August has more in store – the Perseid Meteor shower will be at it’s more intense on the night of the 12th. The shower appears between the 17th July and the 24th August, but the 12th is the busiest night: up to 150 shooting stars per hour can be seen then.

    More details here.

    Photo courtesy of Michal Piasecki

    You’ll need to be up early for the third one though!

    Also on the 12th, but about 5:00 am, there’s a planetary alignment of Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune.

    You’ll need a really good telescope to see all of them, but Mars and Saturn should be fairly easy to spot.

    Here’s a visualisation of how they will appear:

    Visualisation from Starwalk.Space

    All leading up to…

    Dunure Festival of the Sea!

    Dunure Festival of the Sea

    Saturday 15th August

    1:00 ’till late!

    This is going to be a good one – it’s in the stars!

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  • Harbour Dredging

    Two days of dredging.

    Two hundred tons of sand and silt!

    In two days we successfully shifted 200 tons, clearing access to Dunure harbour for more vessels.

    Work will be ongoing until the end of the week, Thursday or possibly Friday.

    Thanks to our dedicated committee members whose countless hours of voluntary work make the progress around the harbour and the surrounding area possible.

    Thanks go to Barry McCrindle for the pictures,
    and the Harbour Committee for their dedication.

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