In this section Voted Scotland's most beautiful beach in 2010.
The sand dune system to the north and south of the Lunan water
consists of mobile dunes backed by an established links area. In
the northern section there is thick mantle of Marram Grass.
Inland of the mobile dunes the habitat changes into a shorter
dune pasture area. The dune habitat also supports a number of
invertebrate species, including grasshoppers, earwigs, many
species of beetle, butterflies and moths. Cliff headlands bound
Lunan Bay and fossil cliffs run along the back of the raised
beach ranging from 250m-50m landward of the High Water Mark. The
southern upper raised beach (15m OD) sits on the fossil cliffs
and consists of rough pasture. An extensive area of inter-tidal
sand flats runs virtually uninterrupted for 3.5 km of Lunan Bay.
There are also areas of estuarine Mud/ Sand Flats, Saltmarsh and
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