71. Traigh Udal

Just walking the length of Traigh Ear on the eastern side of the Udal Peninsula has been invigorating enough, but as I reach the top and continue left, I follow a path towards the enormous dunes of Traigh Udal, the smallest and most remote of the three beaches on the peninsula. I am approaching the beach from behind the dunes, and it’s only when I reach the edge that I get a true sense of their scale. These are magnificent dunes, shaped by a relentless battering from the Atlantic winds and there is a genuine, remote, edge-of-the-world beauty about this beach. I scramble down onto the sand, walk to the shoreline and look back at the towering dunes. It’s stunning.