With two championship golf courses, the seaside town of Nairn also claims to have the driest and sunniest climate in the whole of Scotland. This alone should be reason enough visit, but there are other attractions besides the sunshine for there are miles of sandy beach stretching east to the Culbin Forest and two of the best castles in the country are within easy reach – Cawdor Castle. Nairn is also only 5 miles from the airport and makes a pleasant alternative to staying in Inverness.
About 2 miles east of Nairn, in the little village of Auldearn, is a 17th-century doocot (dovecote). Nearby the Boath Doocot information boards record the 1645 Battle of Aldearn in which the victorious troops of Charles I, led by the Marquess of Montrose, defeated and killed almost 2000 Covenanters.
Ten miles south of Nairn on the A939 to Grantown is Dulsie Bridge, a very popular local beauty spot which is a great place for a summer picnic or to swim in the River Findhorn. On the southern shores of the Moray Firth, just east of Nairn, is Culbin Sands, a stretch of sand home to a variety of birdlife and managed by the RSPB. The best time to visit is from autumn to spring when bar-tailed godwits, oystercatchers, knots, dunlins, ringed plovers, redshanks, curlews, shellducks, red-breasted mergansers, greylag geese and snow buntings, to name but a few, come here in their droves.
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