Meet 11.00am at Kearney (NGR J 649 515 ) signposted off A2 Portaferry to Cloughey Road. Please share cars as car-parking is limited at Kearney and even more so at Ballyquintin.

We plan to walk along level grassy paths by the shore towards Knockinelder and hope to see Yellow-horned Poppy (Glaucium flavum) and other shingle and seashore plants.

After a picnic lunch we will head for the Ballyquintin National Trust Nature Reserve (NGR J 625 455), stopping briefly en route at the Holy Wells near Templecowey, where there is a board walk across salt marsh.

The National Trust are farming at Ballyquintin in an environmentally sensitive way so, as well as plants, we should see skylarks, yellowhammers, kestrels and Irish hares. Seals haul up on the Bar Hall rocks. If it is sunny, we should see a good variety of butterflies - in August 2006 there were many Clouded Yellows.

Bring picnic lunch, which need not be portable; toilets at car park. Bring flora, hand lenses, binoculars and suitable footwear and clothing.