The Gut

Beach in Banffshire

Scotland

The Gut

Orienteers at Culbin The great sands of Culbin once threatened and destroyed farms and villages. They have now been tamed and stabilised by forestry. The technical navigational challenge of a vast detailed forest makes it one of the very best orienteering venues. Here runners are waiting to start at NH981613. — Orienteers at Culbin Credit: Richard Webb

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The Gut Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 57.637423/-3.7378282 or Grid Reference NH9662. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Orienteers at Culbin

The great sands of Culbin once threatened and destroyed farms and villages. They have now been tamed and stabilised by forestry. The technical navigational challenge of a vast detailed forest makes it one of the very best orienteering venues. Here runners are waiting to start at NH981613.

Richard Webb

Culbin Saltmarshes

Inshore of the sand bars between Nairn and Culbin is a shallow lagoon backed by salt marsh.

Anne Burgess

Lagoon and Saltmarsh

In the background is the Nairn Bar, which shelters the shallow lagoon and saltmarsh.

Anne Burgess

Culbin Forest

A crossroads in the Culbin Forest with differing species at each side.

Anne Burgess

Culbin Forest

A track emerges from the forest on the shore of the lagoon inside the Nairn bar. This is part of the signposted walking routes in the forest.

Anne Burgess

Culbin Saltmarshes

Through the gap between the Nairn and Culbin bars, the North and South Sutors, guardians of the Cromarty Firth, are visible in the distance.

Anne Burgess

Felled timber

Recently felled timber awaiting haulage from the forest to the mill.

James Allan

Forestry track in Culbin Forest

Access to most areas of this forest has been made easy for walkers and cyclists by a network of tracks and paths.

James Allan

Track through Low Wood

This is in the Low Wood section of Culbin Forest.

James Allan

Boggy track

A very wet section of track near Junction 30 in the Low Wood area of Culbin Forest.

James Allan

Stabilised sand dunes

The undulations in the ground among the trees here are a reminder of the shape of the original sand dunes on which Culbin Forest has been grown.

James Allan

Mudflats and sand dunes

Moray Firth coast, just north of Culbin Forest.

James Allan

Vehicular access

Small branches and offcuts spread on the soft ground to allow forestry vehicles to gain access to the forest.

James Allan

Culbin Bar October 2007

This is the tip of the Culbin Bar taken in Oct 07. It changes from year to year and is currently getting longer.

Alastair Young

Culbin sands

Culbin sands looking out toward the Moray Firth

Steven Brown

Memorial on site of village buried beneath dunes

There was a village in the dunes of Culbin sands which was engulfed in sand during a storm in the 1690's. This imaginative memorial marks the location. Since then trees have been planted in an effort to stabilise the dunes and now the area comprises the vast Culbin forest.

ronnie leask

Culbin Forest

View WNW'd over the forest from 'Hill 99' viewing platform. From here the forest is vast in every direction. Beyond the forest, over the Moray Firth can be seen the North and South Sutor,headlands marking the entrance to the Cromarty Firth and beyond South Sutor the bulk of Ben Wyvis.

ronnie leask