Around Burghead
First things first – Just round the corner, in the village Post Office pick up the Press and Journal, our local morning paper and our North East Scotland speciality, buttery rolls.
If you fancy a jog, a stroll or a cycle ride, 5 minutes on foot takes you to the beach and dunes and waymarked paths in the surrounding Roseisle Forest. Drink in the light of our Northern sky, the sounds and tang of the sea and the calm fragrance of the Scots pines. Or explore Burghead itself. The Telford built harbour, full of prawn and lobster boats, boasts its resident seal, terns dive in the shallows, gannets in the deeper water, fulmars nest on the cliffs. Winter brings long tailed duck, curlew, geese and a host of busy little waders scuttling around the shoreline – a birder’s paradise.
The headland is the site of Scotland's largest Pictish fort and source of our famous Burghead Bull sculptures. It’s a great place to view our famous bottlenose dolphins, oilrigs between the Soutars of Cromarty or the Ross, Sutherland and Caithness hills. The Clavie fire ceremony ends here each 11th January, and within the old ramparts lies our unique mysterious Burghead well, dating from Pictish times.
Waymarked paths lead to Hopeman and Lossiemouth, and round Burghead Bay to Findhorn.
For children, swings, sand, warm rock pools, shells and crabs come free!