Panorama Photo

The Coral Beaches is probably the most famous beach of Skye.
My handbook advised to visit on a warm sunny day, but I'm afraid that the warm sunny days here are very rare. My handbbok also added that on a warm summer day Coral Beach resembles a tropical beach, but it is hard to believe :-).
In any case, Coral Beach is a wonderful place, easily accessible with a walk of about an hour.
The fine sand of the beach is not true coral, but come from a plant belonging to the red alga (Lithothamnium calcareum). In life this is a rich red colour, but here its calcareous skeleton has been bleached by the sun.