Inverallochy to St Combs along Whitelink Bay

A glorious sunny morning on which Grey Granite and Rufus enjoyed a tranquil walk along  deserted Whitelinks Bay. Recently this has become  a favourite walk, particulary on occasions when Rosehearty and Philorth Woods are deemed unsuitable for one reason or another.  

This morning instead of turning inland at the Kitty Loch, we carried on across the Millburn Shore towards Charleston as far as the ruins of St Colm's, returning along the beach instead of along the route of the old railway. 

Washing drying on the bents at Charleston. Charleston, across the Millburn from older St Combs,  was founded by the Inverallochy estate around 1800. It was contemptuously christened Soddom by the folk of St Combs.

The bents were studded with bright dandelions and the odd patch of wild hyacinths which like this Greater Periwinkle are almost certainly outcasts from gardens. The prodigiously large periwinkle was an eye catching blue.

The kirkyard at St Combs surrounding the ruins of the medieval St Colm's Kirk