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GUIDE TO OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Swimming, Golf, Walking are among the many outdoor activities on offer in the Stonehaven area. This page shows the variety of activities available.
Walking
Stonehaven offers an intriguing North East Coastal Walk, with a variety of attractions from geology to floodlit swimming.This site from the BBC provides some excellent information about this walk.
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Swimming
Stonehaven has the UK's only art deco, olympic sized, fully filtrated sea water, open air swimming pool.Opens first Sunday in June until end of September. Features Midnight Swims and Barbecues.
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Golf
 Stonehaven has some of the most dramatic holes on Scotland's east coast. To stand on the higher areas of the course, and watch players driving off of those sheer outcrops of rock, can send your head into a spin. These are amazing panoramic golf views that could grace the front cover of any golf magazine. Viewing the dramatic scenes on this course is one thing, playing it is another matter.
With most of the holes perched on headland and a parkland section on the other side of the railway line, Stonehaven is not your typical coastal course. It is, however, a unique challenge and the views are simply glorious. It's not over long but, the first-timer, should take care, especially on the front nine where the cliffs often come into play.
The course is challenging but fun.
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There are many quality golf courses throught Grampian and details can be found here
Fishing
Stonehaven is located between the mouths of the River Cowie and River Carron, both being summer/autumn spate streams with runs of migratory fish - mainly seatrout with some grilse and salmon. These start to gather in Stonehaven Bay from around June onwards, when some fine sport can be enjoyed by fly fishing or spinning from the foreshore, where the Stonehaven and District Angling Association holds the sole game angling rights. Given spate conditions at any time from then onwards, fish enter these two rivers (whose fishings are leased by the SDAA) and can provide daytime action in high water to fly, worm and spinner, with seatrout also responding well in lower water conditions to a nocturnal fly or the deadly fly-and-maggot. The association also leases modest upper fishings on the River Bervie, some eight miles to the south. For stillwater enthusiasts, it also owns one local well-stocked trout fishery and leases another. Membership of this friendly fishing club is readily available at very reasonable cost.
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Boat Trips
For a chance to see some of Scotland's finest seabirds, including puffins, razorbills, guillemots, kittiwakes and fulmars, grab hold of your sea-legs and join us for a boat trip adventure with local RSPB guides.
See Birds
Charter a boat here
Sailing & Yachting
Aberdeen & Stonehaven Yacht Club (ASYC) is the home of Dinghy Sailing in the North East of Scotland.
The ASYC Open Regatta will be held over the weekend 27th /28th August 2005 but there are other events throughout the year
For more information on Sailing and Yachting. click here
Tennis
The disused courts down at the beach side of the Recreation Grounds in Stonehaven have recently had their fences restored and painted and new surfaces laid on two courts giving the Tennis Club one of the best facilities in the North East. New members welcome and non members can use the facilities on a pay as you go basis.
For more details
Contact Carol Shey on 01561 320748
or email shey.carol@btopenworld.com
Model Car Racing
Stonehaven & District Radio Car Club have a dedicated Race Track for 1/10th Scale Radio Control Cars (mostly Electric Powered), and race on the second Sunday of every month, March to October.
Meetings are fun, informal, and start from around 10am and finish before 5pm. Visitors very welcome.
For more details
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Kings Camps
The UK’s leading sports camps and summer camps for children
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