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Photo of Culla Bay, a beach near Balivanich, Na h-Eileanan Siar, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

© Julian Paren / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Culla Bay

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Culla Bay is a broad white-sand beach on the west side of Benbecula, backed by flower-rich machair near Nunton. Benbecula is famously flat and low, so the beach opens straight onto the Atlantic under big skies. A single-track road runs down to it from Nunton.

More places to visit near Culla Bay

Photo of Benbecula, an island in Na h-Eileanan Siar, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.Highlight

Benbecula

Island near Balivanich

Flat island of lochans between the Uists, with west-coast machair beaches, the ruins of Borve Castle and the Uists' airport

0.1 km NE

Photo of Baleshare, an island in Na h-Eileanan Siar, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.Highlight

Baleshare

Island near Carinish

Flat machair island off North Uist's west coast, reached by causeway, with a long sandy beach facing the Atlantic

5.1 km NE

Photo of South Uist, an island in Na h-Eileanan Siar, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.Highlight

South Uist

Island near Howmore

Twenty miles of machair and beach down the west side, Hecla and Beinn Mhòr to the east, and Flora MacDonald's birthplace

6.7 km S

Photo of North Uist, an island in Na h-Eileanan Siar, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.Highlight

North Uist

Island near Lochmaddy

Low island of countless lochans and machair beaches, with RSPB Balranald's corncrakes, Barpa Langass chambered cairn and Taigh Chearsabhagh arts centre

7.4 km NE

Photo of Grimsay, an island in Na h-Eileanan Siar, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.Highlight

Grimsay

Island near Carinish

Causeway island between the Uists, with the shellfish harbour at Kallin, the Uist Wool mill and a boat museum

8.7 km NE

Photo of Salar / Uist seafood at Kallin Harbour, a farm & farm shop in Na h-Eileanan Siar, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

Salar / Uist seafood at Kallin Harbour

Farm & farm shop near Kallin

Fishing co-op at Kallin harbour on Grimsay landing and selling langoustines, crabs and lobster.

12.2 km E