Cruden Bay and Slains Castle

Just to give you an idea of where I was I posted this handy dandy screenshot of a map.  Dave and Pam of Aurora Guest House offered to take me from the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse back to my hostel in Aberdeen.  What I did not know was on the way back I would get a chance to see a part of Scotland that I didn’t even know about and would have never gotten to see on a bus or train. 

Lucky ME!!!!!

Cruden Bay

Cruden Bay

Cruden Bay

Cruden Bay

Cruden Bay

I need to learn to take better pictures

Dave and or Pam not sure took this of me @Cruden Bay

It was such a lovely day after the clouds melted away

Story of the Bay of Cruden

So, we stopped and took these great pictures.  They had a really nice camera and me?  I had my Samsung Galaxy Tablet.  I broke my phone or rather shattered it to death, LED death on the palace floor at Linlithgow Palace.  Lucky for me I had this tablet or no phone contact with family or any photos would have been as easy.  So, even though the battery was drained on a daily, it did a really, really great job!

After checking out the Bay, we heading to castle ruins which turned out to be Slains Castle.  So much later, after I got back to California and I read about the castle, I discovered that it was a possible inspiration for Bram Stoker and an inspiration for the setting of his tale, Count Dracula!  It was a very famous place in the 19th century and entertained many celebrities, including Bram Stoker. 

• Kinda creepy castle
• Kinda eerie when walking through the ruins
• Super cool to walk through those ruins
• Lucky Sheri to have met Dave and Pam to take me to Cruden Bay or the Bay of Cruden and to Slains Castle
• I most definitely need to go back to Aberdeen

What a view!

Slains Castle up ahead!

Did pirates ever come here?

Slains Castle

Slains Castle

Did Bram Stoker really get inspiration from this castle?

I am sure is was beautiful in its full glory

Looks like a fall would hurt bad!

So this was three stories?

I can imagine the beauty of the sunset here

The beautiful North Sea

I love natures beauty.

I take a lot of scenery pictures

Ok so try to imagine living here

View from inside the castle

Danger!

Another view of the castle

A view from inside as well

and this one too

Hello! I love taking selfies..

By the end of this drive, my poor tablet died and I was not able to take any of my own pictures of the last place Dave and Pam took me before dropping me off at my hostel.

We stopped at a loch along the way

and Dave was taking really neat pictures of the waterfowl and I just admired the beauty.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen.   Our last stop was at the Footdee.

We stopped and walked around the Fittie.  It depends are where you are from how it is pronounced.  I placed a few links from Wikipedia so you might read about this really cool place.  I did not take these pictures below, they are from the creative commons and available for use.  This is just a smidge of they really cool cottages that we saw walking through the Fittie.

These are cottages in the Fittie (creative commons)

Another view of the cottages in the Fittie (creative commons)

Beautiful gardens in the Fittie (creative commons)

All and all it was an incredible day and incredible hosts!  I still count myself so very lucky to have met Dave and Pam and I hope when I return I can stay at their really cool B&B.  

Mòran taing

Sheri 

Wikipedia contributors. (2018, June 10). Footdee. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:32, June 24, 2018, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Footdee&oldid=845286209