📌 Logie, Moray
★★★
The curiously-named Sluie Walk explores a section of the River Findhorn gorge between Logie and Forres; its only a couple of miles downstream from popular Randolph’s Leap, yet receives far fewer visitors. (For a longer walk, the gorge rim path continues and links the two sites.) Wooden signs painted in blood-red hues remind walkers to keep away from the gorge edges, so resist the temptation to peer too far into the abyss to capture glimpses of the swirling waters, far below. Occasional vantage points where the trees thin, coupled with the music of tumbling rapids, should be enough to get a feel for this stretch of the river – which has every pool described on O.S. maps with evocative names for fishing such as “Whirling Hole”, “Broad Reeds” or even the simple “Poolie”.
📷 Chronological photo guide
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish at Sluie Lodge, A940 1 mi north of Logie
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NJ 013525
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.552096,-3.651011
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
▶ 4 km / 2 mi | ▲ 40 m | ⌛ 1.5 hr
Features: 🌊 River Findhorn gorge
⬤ Easy | Clear tracks & paths, at times close to unguarded drops.
Download file for GPS➡️ Anticlockwise circuit with extension at southern end: start – join River Findhorn clifftop just south of Mains of Sluie – leave river just south of Streenach Pool – start via track junction at 🧭 NJ 007519
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Horses, crows, tits, wood ants.
Weather: 15°C, cloudy with a little rain.
July 2021
