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Ayre of Cara

A beach in Orkney Islands. By the sand: toilets, parking, bus 200 m.

Ayre of Cara
Photo Karl Cooper, CC BY-SA 2.0

On the beach

No. 1,449 of 1,883 as a wild beach, No. 604 for an easy beach day.

Within 300 m
Toilets, Parking, Bus 200 m · not mapped: cafe or food, lifeguards, showers or waterOpenStreetMap, checked 2026-10-29; stops from NaPTAN and Translink
Name
From Wikidata: the sand is unnamed on the mapWikidata, checked 2026-11-01
Size
About 5.0 hectares as mappedOpenStreetMap, checked 2026-10-29
Position
58.8402° N, 2.9021° W
Getting there
Directions in Google Mapswhat3words addressOpen in OpenStreetMap

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