Trip Report – Langet Cave, Bow Fiddle Rock

Last week, as part of my recovery process, after my recent bout of pneumonia, Alison and I had a three day stay at Findochty (or Finechty as the locals have it) on the north Moray coast. It’s a beautiful coastline, emphasised by a great display of leaping dolphins as soon as we arrived.

As I was trying to regain my fitness, before a cycle-tour from Newcastle to Aberdeen whch we’ve planned in a couple of weeks, we decided to cycle over past the Hill of Maud and down to the track where we could walk up the Bin of Cullen. Our return cycle took in Cullen and then the old railway track around to Portknockie, where we dismounted to take a closer look at the fantastic rock formation known as Bow Fiddle Rock.

We also visited a couple of caves, including a sloping through-cave which mirrored the slope of the “fiddle”. Back home, I looked this up in the GSG Registry and found it was called Langet cave, and there are some very interesting notes added by Nigel Fielden.

I certainly wish I’d read the registry entries before our visit, and I will certainly be back, because, between Cullen Beach and Portknockie harbour there is a huge, wild, craggy area which is dotted with caves.

–Alan