Monday 15 May 2017

Walking in Aberdeenshire & The Banff Coast

Prior to our holiday in Orkney we spent a few days in Newmachar, Aberdeenshire with Gaye's friend Collett and enjoyed excellent hospitality and Tom and I had some excellent walks. 
Our first walk was near Newburgh north of Aberdeen on an area of sand dunes that is now a nature reserve. 
There was plenty of wild life to see and these Eider Ducks were very noisy
This Seal was very nosy and followed us along the coast for quite a while 
A large colony of Eider Ducks
The sand dunes that had to be climbed before we reached the sea
Tom believes in being dressed for the occasion complete with his two hats 
The mile walk along the shoreline
On our way back to Newmacher we stopped at President Trumps new golf course. Nobody was playing.
The next day we headed to the Banff coast for a walk along the coast from Portsoy to Sandend.
The weather inland was not good but at the coast it was perfect
There was gorse everywhere and it was spectacularly colourful in the sunshine

The return journey to Portsoy took us away from the coast and through farmland where we saw this lovely Yellowhammer
The walk took us to the village of Sandend and its lovely harbour
The last mile of the walk along the shore from Sandend to the point where we turned inland has these great concrete blocks placed there during the war to stop a German landing. 

1 comment:

Tommy said...

An excellent set of pictures.

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