Shell Island

We paid £5 for a one day pass for Shell Island. You can come and go, but you need to keep hold of your ticket to avoid paying the fee again. Shell Island can be cut off from the main land when the tide is in, just check the tidal times before you visit. We parked up and headed onto the beach. The beach on Shell Island has very rocky parts, very pebbly parts and of course little shell parts, but there is a part with enough sand ideal for dogs.

We've been to Shell Island before back in 2006 and camped. It's great to camp and we really enjoyed it, we may do it again sometime. Spike particularly liked camping as we found when we couldn't throw his ball for him because we were cooking or cleaning, he would go to the next tent and drop his ball at the feet of the first person he could find! He was very popular with the kids and the parents as it kept the kids busy!

Shell Island has some lovely dunes, but they can be dangerous so caution is needed. We wasted our one day pass really as we only stayed a few hours. The dogs got tired, the island was very busy with visitors and the weather wasn't nice enough to just sit on the beach and relax, so we headed back to the caravan site.