Date of walk: 22/10/19

Forestair at 4 West Shore I, St Monans Harbour, Fife, Scotland. Living accommodation would have been on the first floor with a boat store, workshop and sail store on the ground floor.

Wellie Boot Garden, St Monans, Fife, Scotland.

Forestair at 4 West Shore II, St Monans Harbour, Fife, Scotland.

St Monans Auld Kirk, Fife, Scotland. One of the oldest churches in Scotland still in use having been built in the 13th century.

St Monans Auld Kirk Interior I, Fife, Scotland.

St Monans Auld Kirk, Fife, Scotland. The Fife coast path passes, pleasingly, down the steps on the seaward side.

St Monans Auld Kirk Interior II, Fife, Scotland.

Looking back to St Monans Auld Kirk, Fife, Scotland.

North Berwick Law from Adross, Fife, Scotland.

Lady’s Tower with North Berwick Law (a volcanic plug that resisted the scraping glaciers of the ice age) across the Firth of Forth. The folly was built in the 1770s as a summerhouse and bathing house for Janet Fall, Lady Anstruther, wife of the laird of Ardross & Elie estate. Lady Anstruther is said to have enjoyed sea-bathing and sent a bell-ringer around Elie to warn the local people to keep away, to protect her modesty. Elie, Fife, Scotland.

Elie, Fife, Scotland.

Elie forestairs I, Fife, Scotland.

The Ship Inn, Elie, Fife, Scotland.

Elie forestairs II, Fife, Scotland.

Elie choices, Fife.

Earlsferry, Fife, Scotland.

East Vows Beacon, Elie, Fife, Scotland. Constructed in 1847 by Alan Stevenson, the cage was intended as a refuge for shipwrecked mariners.

WWII searchlight building with faceted roof for aerial camouflage, Kincraig Battery, Elie, Fife, Scotland.

Parked rigs in the Firth of Forth I, Fife, Scotland.

The Elie Chain ‘Walk’, Fife, Scotland.

Gate to the house of artist Alan Faulds, Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

Parked rigs in the Firth of Forth II, Fife, Scotland.

Malagan (detail), painted oak with copper by Alan Faulds, 2008, Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

Lundin Links, Fife, Scotland.

Malagan, painted oak with copper by Alan Faulds, 2008, Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

Leven Beach Holiday Park, Fife, Scotland.

Edinburgh and Arthur’s Seat from Leven, Fife, Scotland.

Starting to see some English attitudes to the shore slipping across the border.

A sneaky hidden pillbox in Earlsferry.
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Not since the South Hams in Devon have I been so familiar with the bits of coastline in your photos. As you get closer to Edinburgh I can’t help but being excited to see what you record of our neighbourhood! Gorgeous shots, as ever.
I hope it lives up to expectations!