Day 346: St Combs to Peterhead – Rattray Head & St Fergus Gas Terminal

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Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Date of walk: 5/9/19

Circumference, Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Rattray Head shimmer I, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Cormorants near Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Rattray Head Lighthouse I, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Rattray Head shimmer II, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Rattray Head Lighthouse II, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

St Fergus Gas Terminal I, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Wreck of the ‘Excelsior’ a Norwegian barque (three-masted sailing ship) which ran aground in 1881, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Rattray Head Lighthouse III, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

St Fergus Gas Terminal II, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Rattray Head Lighthouse IV, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Engineers are always the most radical sculptors. St Fergus Gas Terminal III, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Surfers by St Fergus Gas Terminal, Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

St Fergus Gas Terminal IV, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

St Fergus Gas Terminal V, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

St Fergus Gas Terminal VI, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Towards Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Monument to Initialisms & Acronyms, Peterhead. Maritime Developments Ltd, MDL PVLS 75Te is a portable vertical lay system for the deployment and retrieval of subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF).

MDL PVLS 75Te, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Peterhead Fish Market, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Peterhead Harbour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Peterhead Ice Company, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Peterhead Harbour Dry Dock I, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Peterhead Harbour Dry Dock II, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Pipeline paraphernalia, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.



Comet from the sea.

Big stretch without streams today. I had to head inland and knock on a door to get drinking water; one of the only times I’ve needed to do this,

Stags and Coos: The Scottish B&B default.

Surfers by St Fergus Gas Terminal.
Shimmer mirror towards Rattray head.
A restful night out of the wind tucked in between the folds of the dunes. Twenty kilometres of beach walking ahead to Peterhead.
Approaching Rattray Head.
Peterhead Harbour.
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One thought on “Day 346: St Combs to Peterhead – Rattray Head & St Fergus Gas Terminal”

  1. Richard Webb says:

    I remember leaving Peterhead with a ridiculous volume of water on the bike when I rode the beach. It’s a long way and I spent the night out there. St Fergus and Rattray Head are rather other worldly.

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