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Cleit Beach

Cleit, Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, HS9 5XX

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Image: Evening light at Cleit beach. © Copyright Gordon Hatton and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

A gem of a beach which you are likely to have to yourself. Pull off the road in front of the pebbly shore, then walk eastwards over the dune. At low water on some tides you can enter caves at the far end.

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