Showing posts with label Aberdeenshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aberdeenshire. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 July 2018

Roadtrip...Aberdeenshire coast... Pt5; Newburgh beach



Heading home and we stopped off for some beach riding north of Aberdeen, i knew there was a lot of beach here but did not realise how much!, i enviously looked across at this huge dune from the other side of the river Ythan, too deep to cross, but there was more than enough sand on the south side...


Around the estuary and across the opposite bank seals basked in the sun, a visitor attraction...




South all the way to Aberdeen was beach, around 6 miles or so...



A few WW2 Coastal Crust defences still remain...


Anti tank blocks with stones cemented in on top, never seen ones like this before...



Another Type 22 Machine gun pill box...



We road a couple of miles in the baking heat stopping at an old boat wreck...


Returning to the van and i had to go up and have a look at the defence on the dune...



 There were in fact two identical defences, not seen this type before...


One last dune surf to do!, and back on the beach we we to watch the seals for a bit...

I will deft be back to ride all this beach and do some exploring for sure!...

Here is some film
Song is `Forgiveness` by The Engineers


Coastrider; Newburgh Beach July 2018 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.

Time to head for home, an ace week away with M,
More soon...

Roadtrip; Aberdeenshire coast...Pt4; Fraserburgh

Fraserburgh, an industrial fishing town but it also has a real nice beach, 3 miles long with some nice dunes too!, perfect for a wee beachride with M,


One of 3 WW2 `Coastal Crust` defence line concrete Machine Gun Pill Boxes remaining...






Some film of the beach....



Back at HQ and a BBQ and sit out in another fine evening...




And the best sunset of the trip...




Life is Good...


More soon...

Saturday, 7 July 2018

Roadtrip; Aberdeenshire coast... Pt 3; Portsoy, Cullen Bay and Portnockie


Portsoy;
Stunning harbour...











Cullen Bay;
Some food at Cullen, then along the sands of the bay for a walk...









The trail leaves the beach and climbs onto the cliff tops of Portknockie...





Portknockie;
Again here a lot of seabirds...





More soon...