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After a long drive down the a499 from the nearest cities, Bangor and Caernarfon you will need to navigate well, negotiate the tricky single lane roads, which will filter out the SUVs or caravans and then trust yourself that you are in the car park when the road ends in a field. Look in the hedge and you will find the pay and display! The journey's not over, there's a 500m walk down to the cliff tops and then a walk down to the beach, 10 mins.

It is however a pot of Welsh Gold at the end of the rainbow and is truly worth the trip. As the faint hearted and unmotivated will fall by the wayside the chances are you will have paradise to yourself. Pitch a tent and stay a while. Oh and the waves - big, powerful and varied across the whole tide. But then you didn't expect anything less did you?!

Getting there
Walk
Short walk (5-15 min)
Public access
Yes
4x4 required
Unknown
Boat required
Unknown
Wave characteristics
Type
Beach break
Direction
Left
Bottom
Sandy
Power
Powerful
Frequency
Very consistent (150+ days/year)
Normal length
Short (<50m)
Good day length
Long (150 to 300m)
Ideal conditions
Wind direction
SouthEast
Swell direction
NorthEast
Swell size
Less than 3ft - 10ft+
Tide
All tides
Tide movement
Falling tide
Crowd
Week
Empty
Weekend
Few surfers

Dangers

Rips / undertow

Videos

None

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