An RNLI-lifeguarded town beach looking across the Tay Estuary to Fife, with Broughty Castle nearby. One of the few lifeguarded spots in this set, with a cordoned safe-swim area through the summer season.
RNLI-lifeguarded, award-winning managed urban beach; robust and well-known, exact coords fine.
Beach esplanade car parks, some free some paid.
Direct sandy beach access from the esplanade, cordoned safe-swim area in summer.
Tentsmuir NNR, near Tayport
Forest tracks out to a shifting dune and sand-point reserve with a seal colony, especially active in autumn and winter pupping …
Tayport, North Fife
Forest tracks giving way to a wide dune beach with a genuinely dark sea horizon to the east, away from the Dundee glow inland. …
St Andrews
The famous Chariots of Fire beach: two miles of flat firm sand backed by the university towers and links courses, with Excellen…