Season: spring
You look straight out to Taransay from this exceptional beach and the sunsets here are a particular highlight, as the light hits the hills opposite. There’s a campsite with a shop within a stone’s throw of the beach. The environment is pristine, with clear green blue water and seals can be spotted from the beach. There’s another beautiful, isolated south-facing beach just across the headland. The interests of this beach and others are helped by the work of the West Harris Trust.
What this beach means to Roddy.
Season: summer
This is the most sheltered of the glamorous west-facing South Harris beaches. Moving forward from its historical cultural association to the previously inhabited Isle of Taransay, as the landfall for the outer islanders and the place to which their cattle swam ashore en route to market, the beach is now used as a safe landing point for pleasure boats. These now use a pontoon, which is made available during the summer months.
An American perspective on the beach.
A view from the dunes at Horgabost.
