Elie to Lower Largo 7 mile Walk 4/10/19

We left Sitka with Lesley's neighbours for the day so that we could go for a longer walk, because at 13 he struggles with bigger distances.
The forecast wasn't too bad on the east and we hadn't walked this stretch of the coast before.
We left the car in Elie and made our way along the beach towards Earlsferry, crossing the edge of the links golf course then up the cliffs to Kincraig Hill. We passed through the site of the ruins of Kincraig Battery, a second world war observation post looking out over the Forth towards North Berwick. It was pretty breezy but thankfully we only got caught in one rain shower.
After Kincraig we made our way down the hill back onto the beaches of Shell Bay and Largo Bay.
We stopped of at the Railway Inn at Lower Largo for cheese toasties and a pot of tea, not a bad day for a Friday.

Elie Harbour

View over the fields from the battery

Earlsferry links with the Bass Rock in the distance

West and East Lomond Hills

A lone curlew and a couple of oil rigs

The statue in Lower Largo of Alexander Selkirk who provided inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

Malagan sculpture by artist Alan Faulds made from 5 separate sections of Scottish oaks and the roof tiles made from his old hot water cylinder

Screenshot of our route