Five great British beaches
Jun 11, 2021
2 minutes
Tropical sands in Scotland
Luskentyre beach, on Harris in the Outer Hebrides, is one of the island’s “show-stoppers”, says Hugh Morris in The Sunday Telegraph. The beach makes “a vast ‘V’ shape as the sea infringes the land, cutting channels and streams that ebb and flow with the tides. It is wide, sweeping, golden and empty”. It’s enough to make one feel like, stranded as he was on a tropical island. “Luskentyre’s waters shimmer between blue and silver as the shallows rise and fall, with only gentle waves breaking the silence. I wandered for hours and barely covered half the shore.”
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