Easy hikes and walks around Royal Burgh Of Inverbervie

The Gourdon Survival Station – small, blue, and absolutely essential for survival! Right on the harbor wall in Gourdon, you'll find everything you need for survival – in a charmingly Scottish miniature version: • 🥫 The Storage Box – A food donation box. Open, honest, and supportive. If you're hungry, help yourself. If you have anything left over, put it in. Works better than some refrigerators! • 📚 The Little Free Library – A blue bookcase with anchor decorations, packed with crime novels, children's books, and romantic dramas. For your mind when the weather turns to "horizontal rain" again. • ⚡ The Defibrillator – Safely stored in an old telephone booth with a retro mosaic. If the thrill of a JD Kirk novel or the stairs to the harbor sweep you away – here's power for your heart. Conclusion: Humans need three things: food, reading, and life. In Gourdon, you'll find everything – right next to each other, without any bureaucracy. You just have to brew your own tea.

Imagine a tiny museum in an old Coast Guard building right on Gutty Harbor—charming, but with the heart of a captain. The superstar there is the "Maggie Law," a 30-foot surf rowing buoy built in 1890, rowed by six men, and ingenious at performing rescues between sharp rocks—it saved 36 lives in 40 years of service!

Here a variety of different seabirds can be Seen: Guillemots, Razorbills and Kittiwakes, along with a few Puffins and Fulmars Benches and a small hut offer great resting areas

Beautiful cliff top walk, spotted a few puffins. The noise of the birds is amazing, thousands of them. Well worth a visit.

There’s a small car park at the end of the road. From there the cliff top walk leads along the various nesting sites. To see Puffins come nearer sunset, as they spend their day out at sea.

The Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve is worth a walk. The area is known as a breading spot for hundred thousands of seabirds like guillemots, razorbills and kittiwakes. If you are really lucky, you might see a few puffins as well. There is a little wooden shelter for bird watching at the end of the trail that offers a stunning view of the cliffs with a 30-foot-drop.

Inverbervie which means mouth of the River Bervie is a small coastal town on the North Sea coast. It dates to at least the 12th century although it's likely that there was a settlement here for much longer. The harbour was once important but over the years a shingle reef built up offshore and eventually the harbour was abandoned. The town became industrialised in the late 1700's with Flax spinning dominating. By the early 1900's this ended. Today it's a small town with a selection of shops, cafes and pubs. The coast is pretty and it's worth a stop on a bike ride, it's a good distance from Stonehaven in the north or Montrose in the south so works well as a turnaround point.

They have lovely vegan chocolate cake and oat milk coffee. Nice atmosphere and friendly staff.