Moray Coast Trail

Today we went down the east coast to Forres and on to Lossiemouth via the Moray Coast Trail. This is a section of the walk we did at Cummingstown, to Hopeman. The trail is the disused railway track turned into a walking trail. The rail track disappeared under the Beeching cuts in the 1960s. The whole trail starts at Findhorn and winds it way east 50 miles to Cullen.
At Hopeman east beach a signboard has an appropriate extract from John Mansfields poem Sea Fever
, I must go down to the sea again
for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call
that may not be denied!
And all I ask is a windy day
with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume,
And the Seagulls crying'

The weather was good and fairly warm at 8 degrees centigrade.