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On a beach…welcome to manonabeach.com, where I’ll regularly add video of my beach visits, so you can enjoy a flavour of the beach, even when you’re not there.

Hightown Beach

View map of beach SSSI Dog friendly Cleaned by volunteers

Season: autumn

Hightown is a small sand and shingle beach, running either side of the River Alt estuary and backed by a dune system and Hightown itself.  To the south is Blundellsands Sailing Club and to the north is Formby.  The beach has no formal parking or facilities, so the best approach is to park on the road in the town and arrive via the dunes.  There is a sailing club based on the river and the beach is popular with dog walkers, nature lovers and ramblers, being non-commercial and unspoilt.

Things lost and found, with Kenny at the beach.

A view from the dunes.

Crosby Beach

View map of beach Parking available Toilets available Crosby Coastal Park SSSI Dog friendly All year round Beach cleaned regularly Good water quality for swimming

Season: autumn

The long, sandy Crosby beach looks out over Crosby Channel and the busy shipping lanes to and from Liverpool.  Perhaps appropriately then, it’s the location for artist Antony Gormley’s “Another Place”, comprising a hundred cast iron lifesize figures, each in the image of the artist.  These “iron men” are placed at different points in the tide run and look out to sea, as many people do at the beach.  Many of the figures are therefore barnacled and weathered.  Some have bracelets and human decoration and they are popular as photographic opportunities for visitors.  They don’t appear incongruous, adding their own resonance to the question “What does the beach mean to you?”.

What the beach means to Darrin.

A view of the beach from the promenade.

Down by the water’s edge at low tide.

New Brighton beach

View map of beach Parking available Toilets available Wirral Circular Trail & Wirral Coastal Walk North Wirral Coastal Park SSSI Dog friendly Easter and Autumn school holidays, bank holidays and all summer Beach cleaned regularly Good water quality for swimming

Season: autumn

As the next beach along from Wallasey, this is a popular Wirral visitor destination.  New Brighton offers a wide variety of activities, including kayaking, snorkeling and diving, jet skiing and fishing.  As part of the North Wirral Coastal Path, there’s a wide range of wildlife habitats to enjoy.  A slipway gives beach access for water sports and there is space for everyone as the tide falls away, revealing interesting groynes on the beach.  Dave’s contribution ends rather abruptly, due to a failing battery.

Dave and Laura, down on the beach at New Brighton.

There is plenty to look at here.