Bay of Sannick, CaithnessA small sandy bay between John o' Groats and Duncansby Head, below grassy headlands on the Pentland Firth, with seals in the water and Orkney across the sea.

Beaches
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9° and cloudy at Bay of Sannick just now.

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What Kilbride Bay Beach looks like in autumn.

A crescent of sand on Argyll's Secret Coast, reached through the dunes, with Arran filling the view.

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Beach of the day15 hours ago

Sands of Breckon.

A shell-sand beach at Yell’s northern end, twenty-one miles from the ferry at Ulsta.

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From our collectionsA collection13 hours ago

Shetland IslandsQuendale Beach

Easter RossArdmair Beach

Wester RossSand Beach

FifeLeven Beach

Shetland IslandsMinn Beach

CaithnessReiss Sands

SutherlandCeannabeinne Beach

Dumfries and GallowaySandyhills Beach

MorayshireSunnyside Beach

MorayshireHopeman East Beach

White sand, clear water and, more often than not, nobody else on it. Scotland's beaches are some of the best anywhere and most of them are wonderfully quiet, and these are the ones we'd drive a long way for.

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Free12 hours ago

Dumfries and GallowayMossyard BeachAttraction

AberdeenshireNew Aberdour BeachAttraction

Argyll and ButeOstel Bay BeachAttraction

AberdeenAberdeen BeachAttraction

LothianCramond BeachAttraction

AngusLunan BayAttraction

Free to visit.

Beaches, waterfalls, viewpoints and stones: nothing to pay and nobody to ask.

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Somewhere to go10 hours ago

Farr Beach, Sutherland.

A sandy bay framed by rocky, grassy headlands at Bettyhill on the north coast, below the old church of Farr, now the Strathnaver Museum.

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Newly discovered9 hours ago

AberdeenshireBalmedie Beach and Country ParkWalk

AberdeenshireNew Aberdour BeachAttraction

Dumfries and GallowayMossyard BeachAttraction

LothianMilsey BayAttraction

LochaberSilver Sands of MorarAttraction

SutherlandAchnahaird BeachAttraction

Some good places to go, newly added to the site.

From Aberdeenshire, Dumfries and Galloway and Lothian.

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From the magazine7 hours ago

Issue 11Autumn / Winter 2025–26

Hannah Mary and Callum Goodlad, from Shetland, built Scotland's first wild sauna in a horsebox in 2020, and it usually sits on St Ninian's Beach.

The idea came to them on holiday in Norway, sitting in one of the floating saunas in the Oslofjord, at a time when saunas in the UK were mostly found in hotels and spas. They bought a horsebox from a farmer in Aberdeenshire and fitted it with a wood-fired stove, so the sauna could travel anywhere, and Haar Sauna was born. It has won several awards since, and its usual spot is on the white sands of St Ninian's Beach, right on the edge of the Atlantic. The idea is older than it looks, though: a sauna-like structure from the Bronze Age has been found at Stronechrubie in Assynt.

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Lunch5 hours ago

Wester RossMountain Coffee Co12.9 miles

SutherlandCeilidh Place14.5 miles

SutherlandCult Cafe14.6 miles

Lunch near Mellon Udrigle Beach.

The three good places closest to it: Mountain Coffee Co, Ceilidh Place and Cult Cafe.

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From our collectionsA collection4 hours ago

AssyntSandwood Bay

Ross and CromartyGruinard Bay

CaithnessReiss Sands

Stops Worth Making on the North Coast 500

The North Coast 500 is one of the great road trips, and the best of it is in the stops along the way. From beaches and bridges to castles and cliff-top stairways, these are the places worth pulling over for.

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Sunset 18:022 hours ago

Golden hour at Oldshoremore Beach.

A wide sandy bay by the scatter of crofts beyond Kinlochbervie, reached by steps through the dunes, with red sandstone headlands and golden evening light.