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Corner Cave [NW entrance]

Gow Castle, Covesea, W of Lossiemouth, Moray, (Elginshire).

An only just intertidal cave/arch system which consists of a tunnel running across the corner of the cliff immediately NE of Gow's Castle. It has a large pillar at the corner, and a much smaller one along the cliff to the NE at NJ 18171 70851. The large pillar has a slice out of it on its NE side (photo 4) leaving a much thinner wall of sandstone. This has a large window through it about 4.2 m up, 2.5 m high and 4.9 m wide. There is a small round porthole below it. The space left by the lost slice is about 10 m long.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Access: Either W from Covesea village, or E from the old Coastguard lookout to a point near NJ 18513 70919 where the path goes W for 170 m or so to a lower path, from which you can go either way, but in this case W and in the bottom half of the tide.

Altitude is above Chart Datum and is a visual estimate.