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A hundred thousand welcomes to Durness |
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DURNESS BEACHES The beaches around Durness are magnificent, clean and safe. They are large and easily accessible offering space and endless opportunities to explore. |
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The sand dunes are a most obvious feature of the coast, they represent a large range of habitats and form a machair, a grassland of the calcareous type initially stabilised by Marram Grass. The sandy bay is crescent shaped and facing west where bathing is safe from pollution, unspoilt and quiet. The area offers unparallel sunsets. 1 mile from the center of Durness Balnakeil is very easily accessible. |
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Sango Beach Sango Bay situated close to the Tourist Information Centre in Durness has a stepped access. see Also A 360 degree View of Sango beach with the tide very low |
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The small island out to sea is Eilean Hoan - the burial island - Hoan from the Old Norse How-ey, Eilean the Gaelic foe island. Being of limestone it provides rich pasture and was home to four families until the Clearances. It is now a National Nature Reserve. |
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Translated
form gealic Ceannabeinne means head or end of the
mountains.
Traditionally the beach was known as Traigh Allt
Chailgeag - the beach of the burn of bereavement and
death. This referred to a story of how an elderly woman
fell into the burn, which flows onto the beach, and
drowned. The burn Allt Chailgeag, was in spate at the
time and her body was washed down to the shore. |
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