Off up North for a few days from tomorrow, want to find a gorgeous beach or two. I know the Hebrides have stunning beaches but I’m after some that are on the mainland
Sandwood Bay, Mellon Udrigle, Bettyhill, several around Arisaig, Tentsmuir as some starters but there’ll be plenty more I’m sure someone else will suggest in a minute
how close to civilisation do you need / want to be?
plethora of lovely beaches along the Moray Firth, stretching from Nairn / Culbin, then from mouth of Findhorn you have Findhorn, Roseisle, along to Lossiemouth (two), Kingston & Spey Bey at the mouth of the Spey..
Just back from a week in Tighnabruaich this was taken last Friday at Ostell bay 5 miles along the coast
lovely clean beach and warm…ish sea
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Shhhh you lot. There aren’t any, nope, none at all.
If you can bear to go to Mull on the ferry then Calgary bay is good. Arisaig is nice but the best bits are accessed by sea kayak, there’s a stunning location round the headland to the south of there where I’ve stopped overnight. Sanna is stunning with the right weather. Ardtoe and the beach on the other side of Kentra bay aren’t bad either.
Not really a beach but loch Coruisk is about my favourite place in the UK and the beach at the end of Glen brittle are good too.
*remembering an episode of ‘naked video’ featuring a company making a film promoting scottish beaches, a group of people in dressing gowns on a beach shivering, being shouted at to get out of dressing gowns and start enjoying themselves, which they do, throwing a beach ball about shouting happily. Then when cameras turn off they run back to their dressing gowns shivering*
Sandwood Bay, Mellon Udrigle, Bettyhill, several around Arisaig, Tentsmuir as some starters but there’ll be plenty more I’m sure someone else will suggest in a minute
Some great suggestions here. My all time favourite is East Strathy near Thurso, huge, remote and deserted.
There is a beach near Gairloch which is lovely Red Point I think
Surprised no one has suggested Achmelvich already.
Admittedly, I prefer it in winter when you can have it to yourself.
As above, Sanna is great, but the drive is a pain at this time of year. 68 mile round trip on that singleroad when everything is overgrown is slow progress…it’s really difficult to see what’s coming. I’ve got a great wee camp spot at Sanna that isn’t immediately obvious but is almost perfect. Email me if you want details.
Speyside? Then go to Lossie – two beaches…and one looks like this…
Lovely…are the Tornados still screaming overhead on approach every 5 mins
If you tie a visit in with the Lossiemouth armed forces day you will be able to see the a Typhoon do a display that just confounds all laws of physics. The best day you could ever have on a beach.
Haven’t been to all those mentioned but my favourite’s sango bay, up durness way… Beautiful location, beach itself is lovely, it’s got tons of interesting rocks and stuff. Slightly cold atlantic coast water mind!
Arisaig (along with Camusdarach and Morar), Sanna, Achmelvich and Sandwood are the stand-outs. The latter is made extra special by the wee bit of extra effort required to get there.
For something a bit different, there is also the coral beach on Skye.