Culbin Dunes. Moray Coast. The view along the front of the giant dune known as 'Hill 99' (99 feet high). This one of a number of the giant dunes. How in the late 1600's did this dunefield develop, smothering farmland? In the 20th Century it was planted with conifer seedlings. Nature returned, not only in the form of the dunefield, but as the rich life that then found and colonised the conifer forest. Recently, this location was used to film the battle scene with the Laestrygonians in ‘The Odyssey.’The view down the gentler back-slope of the giant dune known as 'Hill 99'. In the distance the gravel flat between two of these giant dunes. The gravel flat was once seashore. Now it is a long way inland amongst the dunes. These flats another intriguing part of the story here. What did a trillion tons of ice do to Scotland?