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Whale's Mou (N entrance)

Portknockie, Moray, (Banffshire).

Natural Arch. The Whale's Mou is a natural archway in the rock and which a boat can sail in calm weather' and in a storm the waves break within it with terrific violence.

The passage width is narrower at the ends and wider in the middle. It direction is NE/SW.

There is a just supratidal, vertical rift entrance about 15m in from the N end of the tunnel, on the SE side. See photos 3 and 4.

See Whale's Mou (South) for more photos.

A large natural tunnel or cave open at both ends in the cliff on the coast on the west side of Cullen Bay. [Scotland's Places]

Alternative Names: Whales Mouth, Falmouth Cave

Notes: Access: SW end from the beach where it is about 5 m wide, sloping at about 45 degrees and with a vertical height of about 15 m . NE end by sea. It is kayak navigable through the SW end at high tide.

This cave is aligned parallel to the famous 'Bow Fiddle' and gives a good idea of what [Bow Fiddle which] is now a rather short arch, would have looked like at an earlier stage of its formation.

Alternate name Falmouth Cave from 1st Edition OS.

Shelving archaean quartzites, on which rests Old Red Sandstone, with glacial deposits above. [Banffshire]