Inverallochy and Whitelinks Bay
Two old fishing villages gable-end to the sea, then the long sands of Whitelinks Bay.
Inverallochy and Cairnbulg are two eighteenth-century fishing villages that have grown into one another on the flat coast east of Fraserburgh, their cottages set gable-end to the sea and the washing lines strung out on the grass in front to catch the wind.
A walk of about 6km (3.75 miles) starts from the parking at Cairnbulg harbour and follows the shore through Inverallochy, past a modern sculpture remembering those lost at sea, and past Maggie's Hoosie, the last fisher cottage of its kind, lived in until the 1950s and now a tiny museum.
Beyond the village a track runs between the golf course and the sea, then drops to the wide curve of sand at Whitelinks Bay before looping back behind the links. It is flat and takes about two hours. Fraserburgh is a few miles west for fish and chips afterwards, and the lighthouse museum there is worth the stop.
About 6km (3.75 miles), flat, around two hours, from the parking at Cairnbulg harbour.
- Start
- Cairnbulg harbour.
- Distance
- About 6km.
- Time
- About two hours.
Inverallochy and Cairnbulg.
Nooks & Crannies5 miles11 min by road
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses5 miles13 min by road
Kinnaird Head Castle and The Wine Tower5 miles12 min by road
RSPB Loch of StrathbegTens of thousands of wild geese in winter, over a great dune loch on the Buchan coast.7 miles19 min by road
Sandhaven Meal MillAn early nineteenth-century meal mill on the Buchan coast with every piece of its machinery intact.7 miles15 min by road
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