Forest tracks out to a shifting dune and sand-point reserve with a seal colony, especially active in autumn and winter pupping season. An easy-to-moderate half-day walk, best with dogs on lead near the seals.
NatureScot NNR with seal colony and shifting dune/point habitat; well-known managed reserve but approximate the point itself (seal haul-out disturbance risk) while car park/forest paths are exact.
Kinshaldy car park (NatureScot/FLS) at the forest edge.
Forest tracks to the beach and out to Tentsmuir Point.
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. …
Broughty Ferry, Dundee
An RNLI-lifeguarded town beach looking across the Tay Estuary to Fife, with Broughty Castle nearby. One of the few lifeguarded …
St Andrews
The famous Chariots of Fire beach: two miles of flat firm sand backed by the university towers and links courses, with Excellen…