Our top 10 beachcombing tips, beachcombing can be a great family activity and can keep everyone active and enjoying themselves for hours. Here are Coast Radar’s top 10 beachcombing tips to make your time as a beachcomber even more enjoyable: What to take.Here is a list of some items you may want to remember so…
With a school break approaching, the evenings may still be dark and the mornings frosty, it’s great for children to get out and about and we have listed some great spring half-term activity ideas. Now that the first signs of spring are approaching it is a great opportunity to blow away the winter cobwebs with some fresh…
The UK coastline is miles of beautiful, historic and entertaining spots to take a holiday, but why limit yourself to just one or two areas? Travelling by boat gives you the opportunity to take in as much of it as possible, whether you have a week, a month or even a whole year to explore….
Travelling abroad in the current Covid climate is still quite a palaver, with tests having to be done before you go, and when you come back, and sometimes a couple of days before you leave to come home too. These are not free tests and the costs can add up, not to mention the time…
Porthleven is the most southerly fishing port on mainland England sitting between Lands End and the Lizard Point in Cornwall. Porthleven has built up around the need for a harbour with the location chosen because there had been many shipwrecks in the bay. The harbour offers a historic character and a very interesting structure. The rock and pier entrance is followed…
St Ives is a beautiful Cornwall seaside town that wraps around the harbour with breathtaking scenery of the North Cornwall Atlantic coast. Close to the harbour, its streets are narrow, winding with uneven cobbles. With the benefit of the Atlantic swells and the warmth of the Gulf Stream, the area offers some of the best surf conditions…
Coast Activities! Visiting the coast does not have to be about questioning if the weather is good enough for sitting on a beach. We’ve come up with some activity ideas that are available in the UK. Surfing & Stand Up Paddle Boarding Photo by kristymurphy47 In any list of activities, you must have surfing. Although when talking…
The Beach Hut is a common feature above the high water mark at UK beaches and today the UK has over 20,000 beach huts. Although nowadays huts are firmly fixed to the ground the origins were the wheeled bathing machines used throughout the 19th Century. Photo at Llandudno, Wales by National Media Museum Royalty adopted them,…
The Penwith Peninsula covers the south-west corner of Cornwall and thus the British mainland. You can stay anywhere within the peninsula and have access to this beautiful coastline. As a result, easily making this a great spot for a UK based staycation. So where is the Penwith Peninsula? If you roughly draw a line from…
When I arrived in Padstow Cornwall I was welcomed by a warm wind and a positive atmosphere. I decided to grab breakfast at a small cafe sheltered from the wind. The food was good and they were quick to serve.  Once I finished my breakfast I decided to explore the town. There were quite a few…
The UK coast provides such a diversity in such a small area and to cap it all off none of us lives more than 75 miles from it. Once at the coast you can travel just a few miles in any direction and it feels like you have entered a different world. It is very…
The UK Beach Guide is more than just about a few lines of generic beach information. We bring together the whole UK coastline into a single interactive application and social media channels. Searching for something? At the lowest level we have details on: Over 1500 UK beaches – not just a description but includes pictures,…