Distance: 8.33 miles
Ascent: 125 metres
Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes
A life lived backwards
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We need to zip over to Glasgow this afternoon, so it's been an unusually short walk. This has been no bad thing since the weather has turned dreich and we've only one pair of waterproof trousers between us. While Emma's in the Solas board meeting I shall be shopping!
The day started with two miles of road walking before we rejoined the coast at Boddin Point, one of many abandoned communities on the edge of the land. An overgrown path brought us to a cemetery above Elephant Rock. Amongst the lichen-covered tombstones is one for George Ramsay that declares he was born in 1859 but died nineteen years earlier in 1840!
The faint path took us on, along the clifftops, to the farm at Mains of Usan with its curious derelict mausoleum.
From the farm a much better track took us the rest of the way to Scurdie Ness Lighthouse, which guides ships along the River South Esk to the busy docks at Montrose.
Notes for future walkers:
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