We spoke with the water taxi office in the morning but we agreed not to risk going over the bay. Instead we drove off the aire and headed for Roseisle Forest a few miles east along the coast.
There's a huge car park in the middle of the forest next to a café and toilets. We parked there and headed for the beach.
We walked along the beach towards Burghead, passing a lot of WW2 concrete defences on the way.
At a caravan site on the edge of the town we turned into the forest, and started to head back again. It was a good walk, there are loads of different paths going through the forest.
In the afternoon we drove on to Lossiemouth and parked in the East Beach car park. This was a possible overnight stop, but it wasn't very attractive and it was still quite early, so we decided to just go for a walk here and carry on.
We crossed the pedestrian bridge across to the sandy peninsula on the other side of the river, and did a circular walk down one side and up the other.
There are the remains of the old bridge that came down in a storm a few years ago.
We drove on, stopping at Tesco in Elgin on the way. We found a great camping spot at Ballindalloch just next to the River Spey. This is a free spot for a few vans, and has toilets next to it maintained by the local council. It also has a small area for tents, mainly for people walking the Speyside Way.
For dinner later we had chicken and chorizo stuffed pasta with tomato sauce.
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