The beach...

The gorgeous North Berwick

In 20 years I’ve never had a completely successful beach holiday in Scotland. The beach in Scotland is generally a place which requires your inner Boy Scout; you need to be well prepared with thermals, windbreaks, waterproofs, plan b’s, escape routes etc. Last year in North Berwick we barely made the beach once, and that entailed a rather hasty windswept and sandy barbecue.

But this year was different. This year we did them all – Yellowcraigs, West and East North Berwick, Canty Bay, Seacliffs (x2) and Tyninghame. That’s pretty much all the major ones covered form Dirleton to Dunbar. Fantastic! We slapped on the factor 50 and picnicked on the beach without sand in the sandwiches. We dipped our toes, paddles and buckets in the North Sea as we jumped over waves, investigated rockpools, and kayaked round the bay. We built fires (for fun not cold) as we wildcamped by the beach. The kids cried with delight rather than cold. We even occasionally needed to escape the beach for a change of scene – unheard of! And on top of all that we dined like kings of the coast with a plethora of seafood. We did it! We had a proper beach holiday in Scotland 😊.

Thanks to the Gurney’s for letting us stay. The cats survived, just not sure they loved having us as much as they were ‘loved’ by our daughters 😊.

Watching the boats

Beach town cool

Hands up for the beach

Journey to the beach

Sunset at wild camp

Wild campers

Camo-van playing hide and seek



Rockpool discovery

Seacliff - best beach ever?

Sand angels

Beach running 1

Beach running 2

Beach running 3

Paddle time 1

Paddle time 2

 

Eventually the sun had to set