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A hundred thousand welcomes to Durness
 

A 360 degree View of Balnakeil Beach 

Balnakeil is from the Gaelic meaning village or place of the church. 

The sandy bay is crescent shaped and facing west where bathing is safe from pollution, unspoilt and quiet. The area offers unparallel sunsets. The sand dunes are a most obvious feature of the coast. The represent a large range of habitats and form a machair, a grassland of the calcareous type initially stabilised by Marram Grass.