This must be one of the best sandy beaches in the whole of the Inner Hebrides, but because it is accessible by road (well, sort of, hardly the M8) you won't often have it to yourself. In any event it has to be very calm to get rid of any swell that makes landing from the dinghy tricky. As if to emphasise the swell problem you may well see surfers floating about ready to catch a wave, in which case don't take the dinghy — swim ashore instead. It is a great beach for children for sure, and on a hot calm sunny and warm day it is definitely worth a stopover if not a detour. At the north end of the beach, where the golden sand of most of the beach turns to grey, you will find some rather good caves in what I presume is some other type of rock — they extend quite a way, so take a torch. Apparently they sheltered people of the Azilian culture in about 6000 BC.
