This short walk to a beautiful and secluded coral beach. It makes a great place to watch for wildlife or just enjoy the fine setting.
Track then good path, with rocky steps down to beach.
Plockton is served by a rail station on the Kyle line.
Plockton airfield.
As you approach Plockton by car, turn left at the school (signed for the railway station). Don't drive into the station, but instead follow the road, turning left when signed 'Dubh Aird' and 'Beach access'. After the next couple of corners, there is room to park near a green caravan and a wooden footpath sign. Alternatively, you could walk to this point from Plockton village (2 kilometres each way).
Turn along the track as indicated by the wooden sign ('Footpath to the Shore'). After passing through a gate continue straight ahead, ignoring the track off to the right. The track ends at a turning area, close to another green caravan. Go through the gate straight ahead here, and follow a path through the gorse bushes. Looking back there are good views towards the Applecross mountains.
The path curves gently and continues slightly downhill, emerging at a final rocky descent down to the beach itself. The beach sand is made out of dried, calcified sea weed known as maerl, like the similar but better known coral beach on Skye.
It is a beautiful and completely peaceful spot; a place to linger. From near the far end of the beach a faint path leads briefly through woodland to emerge on a rocky shore that looks out across Bagh an t-Srathaidh; there is no option but to return to the beach from here. When you've had enough the return is by the same outward route.
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