Comments on: Visiting Aberdeen: Sand Dunes https://www.alisonchino.com/sand-dunes-scotland/ I'm just trying to walk myself home. Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Coastal Trails Near Aberdeen https://www.alisonchino.com/sand-dunes-scotland/#comment-23310 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:00:28 +0000 http://www.alisonchino.com/?p=22532#comment-23310 […] worldly to me. Partly because I did not grow up near the sea and partly because, similar to the sand dunes in Scotland, these empty stretches of beautiful always feel like epic movie sets to me. Walking from one of […]

]]> By: Alison https://www.alisonchino.com/sand-dunes-scotland/#comment-23139 Tue, 24 May 2016 18:02:28 +0000 http://www.alisonchino.com/?p=22532#comment-23139 In reply to John Evans.

Very fun! This is a great list! We are hoping to get down south and to Wales in the near future so I will definitely take these recommendations along!

We do love the seaside! It’s been such a special part of our time in Scotland!

]]> By: John Evans https://www.alisonchino.com/sand-dunes-scotland/#comment-23138 Tue, 24 May 2016 13:47:07 +0000 http://www.alisonchino.com/?p=22532#comment-23138 Lots of dunes at various places on the Welsh coast – particularly at Borth in mid-Wales, if I remember rightly, and Shell Island, Gwynedd, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire

And in North Devon at Braunton Burrows (http://www.brauntonburrows.org).

Also:
Sefton Coast, Merseyside
Theddlethorpe Dunes, Lincolnshire
Aberlady Bay, East Lothian
Sandwood Bay/Balnakeil Bay, Sutherland

They might do for starters!

The sea and the sand are always changing aren’t they? I think that’s one of the reasons why us British (and Irish) are so fond of and attracted to our long, beautiful coastlines. Sometimes, visitors who come from places in the world that aren’t close to the sea don’t get it at first, but usually, after a couple of trips to the seaside, they do.

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