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Spey Bay () is a small settlement in
* Spey Bay's origins are in
File:1st Fairway at Spey Bay Golf Club.JPG, 1st fairway at Spey Bay Golf Club
File:18th Fairway at Spey Bay Golf Club.JPG, 18th fairway at Spey Bay Golf Club
File:18th Green at Spey Bay Golf Club.jpg, 18th green at Spey Bay Golf Club
Moray
Moray ( ; or ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with a coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland. Its council is based in Elgin, the area' ...
, Scotland. It is situated at the eastern side of the mouth of the River Spey on the coast of the Moray Firth
The Moray Firth (; , or ) is a roughly triangular inlet (or firth) of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of the north of Scotland.
It is the largest firth in Scotland, stretching from Duncans ...
between the village of Kingston on the western side of the Spey, and the fishing port of Buckie
Buckie () is a burgh town (defined as such in List of burghs in Scotland, 1888) on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland. Counties of Scotland, Historically in Banffshire, Buckie was the largest town in the county until the administrative area was ...
to the east.
Tourist attractions
* Spey Bay's origins are in salmon
Salmon (; : salmon) are any of several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera ''Salmo'' and ''Oncorhynchus'' of the family (biology), family Salmonidae, native ...
fishing on the Spey. The fishing station is no longer operational but the Tugnet Ice House - claimed to be the largest in Scotland - remains as a tourist attraction.
* A part of the former fishing station has been converted to provide the Moray Firth Wildlife Centre, operated by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. Famed for the dolphins, the centre is within a wildlife haven that is also home to osprey
The osprey (; ''Pandion haliaetus''), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than in length and a wingspan of . It ...
s, grey
Grey (more frequent in British English) or gray (more frequent in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a cloud-covered s ...
and harbour seals, otter
Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae. The 13 extant otter species are all semiaquatic, aquatic, or marine. Lutrinae is a branch of the Mustelidae family, which includes weasels, badgers, mink, and wolverines, among ...
s, wildfowl
The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica. These birds are adapted for swimming, floating o ...
and wader
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Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wikt:wade#Etymology 1, wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to foraging, ...
s. It is part of a 450 ha nature reserve which forms part of the largest vegetated shingle habitat in Scotland.
* The Speyside Way long-distance footpath passes through Spey Bay.
* The Spey Bay Golf Club along the side of the Speyside Way long-distance footpath, recently purchased by linksDAO, a decentralised autonomous organisation.
See also
* Spey Bay railway stationReferences