Haggis Highway: Loch Fleet Traditional Cache

Part of the Haggis Highway trail and part of a series of events as shown below, please do not look for or log this cache before Friday 5th October.

Thank you and happy caching from the Highland Haggi team.

To celebrate the creation of this section of the Haggis Highway events will take place on 5th, 6th and 7th October 2012.

The events are as follows:
Wick ~ Bar Blether GC3PQ71 - Friday 5th October from 19:00
Wick ~ Dinner GC3PQ89 - Saturday 6th October from 17:00
Dunbeath ~ Lunch GC3PQ8R - Sunday 7th October 10:00~12:00

This shallow tidal estuary of the River Fleet offers great wildlife viewing opportunities. Waders and duck feed out on the mud at low tide and eider duck dive for mussels. In summer arctic and common terns fish the shallows and ospreys are seen regularly. In winter large numbers of wigeon graze the eelgrass on the tidal flats.

There is a good footpath through the pinewood on the north shore. Here you may see Scottish crossbill, crested tit and red squirrel. The area is well-known for two species of pinewood plants, the delicate pink twin flower and the rare one flowered wintergreen. From the car park at Littleferry, once a salmon fishing station with a large ice house, there are attractive paths out through the dunes to the river mouth.

Thankyou to SNH for permission to place this cache