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| 369 Ainsdale Nature Reserves | ||
Flower hunting is great fun and flowers are easier to identify than birds - they don't fly away! But the beach is hardly the place you'd expect to find them. However Ainsdale is different, for here tall spikes of evening-primrose stand high amid dunes carpeted with restharrow, yellow-wort and the beautiful seaside centaury. We even found a couple of rarities then, following the ebbing tide, we watched powerkarts racing up and down the sands before a final paddle in a sun-warmed sea.
 LOCATION: Three miles south of Southport START: Follow signs to Ainsdale Beach from A565 and park on beach, toilets (Grid reference SD298129) DISTANCE: Six miles GRADE: Easy TIME: Three hours MAP: Explorer - Southport Landranger 108 REFRESHMENTS: Beach refreshment van |
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