About Achnahaird Bay
- Open All Year Round
Considered one of Scotland’s best beaches, this is a serene relatively undisturbed beach. At low tide an extensive tidal estuary of sand flats and salt marsh is exposed, fringed by dunes, and past that, machair. These habitats support a diversity of liverworts, mosses and the rare petalwort. Lapwings nest in the wetter sections of dune grasslands. Achnahaird Bay was used as a filming location for the 2011 film The Eagle, with a horse chase scene across the beach.
