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I'll be visiting Fife shortly and I'd very much like to go out onto the Abertay Sands that stretch out eastwards at low tide from the northeast corner of Fife by Tentsmuir Forest. Trouble is, I can't find any info about how big a window of opportunity there is between high tides to walk out on the sands and back without getting cut off by the incoming tide (and also I don't know how long after each high tide you have to allow before the sands become accessible). I phoned the Forest office at Tentsmuir but they were disinclined to feed me any facts, for the simple reason that plenty of jackasses go out onto the sands each year (to see the seals who haul out there) only to get cut off by the incoming tide because they haven't done their homework in advance. The office just doesn't want to give advice, because obviously they don't want to be held accountable if people follow their advice only to have things go wrong. Does anyone reading this board know about access to the Abertay Sands? Or know anyone living round Tayport/Guardbridge/St Andrews who can feed me the facts? Many thanks for your help.
Is this the agency you contacted? Scottish Natural Heritage Fetterdale Office Tentsmuir Forest By Tayport Fife DD6 9PF Tel: 01382 553704 and now I've been distracted by the pictures posted on a site I came across while googling about your question: www.tayport.org.uk I hope this is of help. (By the way, I used to live at West Lights, Tayport when I was wee ~ thus the distraction on that site).
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Yes, that's the place I phoned for advice (and pretty much drew a blank). Interested to learn you lived at West Lights. Do you know if the environs are meant to be haunted? I heard they were supposed to be. I used to go and stay with friends in Tayport about 25 years ago and have very vivid memories of the place. The eastern beach at Tentsmuir (on a sunny July evening) has got to be one of the most beautiful places I've ever been in terms of the outward prospect, the quality of the light, the beach sand and shells etc. I've always meant to go back, though I bet it's pretty bleak at this time of year. I s'pose I could try contacting the Coastguard....but I've a feeling they'd probably be wet blankets.
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Certainly the house I lived in was haunted, some of those experiences were incorporated into the novel my Mother has written (www.WestLightsTheNovel.co.uk).
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I'll check out the book website, thanks. I had a rather eerie experience on the lane behind West Lights on the very first night I visited Tayport; I felt that something very frightening was passing and repassing me and I recall a sort of murmuring sound that accompanied the sensation. Gave me the willies, it did. Thanks for pointing me at the Tayport website. I'll try the forums and see if anyone can give advice about Abertay Sands.
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Yikes! That lane that goes up the back by the old quarry and out to the main road into Tayport IS creepy, even during the day! However, we digress .... good luck with your search.
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Hmm no idea about this place but there are a couple of chain hotels a few miles up the road in Dunfemline for around £50... more
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