Beach activity guide
Beaches with useful nearby cafes, ice cream, seafood or fish and chips.
Beaches with useful nearby cafes, ice cream, seafood or fish and chips.
Colwell Bay Beach is a Freshwater beach with sandy beach with sandy seabed and smooth, gentle depth increase. Good for swimming and families in settled conditions, especially at low tide; shallow, sheltered.
Steephill Cove is a Ventnor beach with small cove with shingle, sand patches, rocks, fishing boats and rock pools. Good for a sheltered dip in calm weather for competent swimmers; watch rocks, seaweed and.
St Helens Duver Beach is a St Helens beach with sand and pebbles with sand/pebble seabed. Pretty good for swimming and paddling in calm water, but shallow; best around suitable tide levels.
Bembridge Beach is a Bembridge beach with sand and pebbles with rock pools and small-boat shoreline. Fine for paddling; generally too shallow for proper swimming at low tide.
Ventnor Beach is a Ventnor beach with sand and shingle/pebbles with mixed seabed. Good for swimmers in calm conditions; deeper/choppier than Colwell/Yaverland and best for confident bathers.