Hi William

I walked from Spey Bay to Fraserburg this year. I tried to follow the coast as closely as possible and was only pushed inland by a few natural features, road walking was minimal, mainly through the coastal towns and villages. The only road of any significance is from Rosehearty to Fraserburgh along a footpath beside the road (boring but you can see the finish ahead). After Portsoy there are only bits of path, cliff edges, castles, bulls, gannets, dolphins, seals and a famous telephone box among other things to make this a very interesting walk. Don't expect to meet many other Challengers! As Louise said earlier there is a good path from Findhorn to Spey Bay ( I came down the speyside way via Ben Rinnes). I enjoyed it very much and it is very different to most second week routes.

Roger