Beaches in Saint Philip

The south-eastern parish of Barbados, where the island's two characters meet. Barbados is a coral island on an uplifted limestone cap rather than a volcanic one, which is why the sand is white, the water clear, and the cliffs along this coast the same material as the beaches below them — the sea has cut the cap, and the result is a shoreline of low headland and pocket beach rather than a continuous strand. This corner faces the open Atlantic with nothing between it and Africa. There is a real shore break, body-boarding rather than swimming is what most people do, and the calm water is on the west coast twenty minutes across the island. The parish holds Crane Beach, the island's earliest resort site and one of the first in the Caribbean, along with Foul Bay and Bottom Bay, both of them undeveloped and reached down a path. Sam Lord's Castle, the Regency house at the centre of the parish's smuggling legends, burned in 2010 and the site has been rebuilt as a hotel. Practically: access to Crane Beach runs through the hotel, which may charge non-guests, and a public route exists along the shore from Foul Bay for anyone who prefers not to pay — Barbados law makes every beach public regardless. The wind blows steadily from the east most of the year, which keeps this side cooler than the west and the sea rougher.

The two are different kinds of shore. Both sit on open ocean. Together they account for 1.8 km of shore. · computed from the 2 records below