Mill Bay is a commuter town of about 7,200 people located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada about 30 km north of Victoria, the capital. It is part of the Cowichan Valley Regional District. Mill Bay was founded in the 1860s with lumber and milling as its primary industries, done at the mill on the bay.
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Sunny cove beach
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East Portlemouth beach
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Salcombe Castle
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Salcombe Maritime Museum
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The Ferry Inn
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Sailor V
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dickandwills
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The Jetty
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This is the best kept secret you will discover - sandy beach! And it is proper, good sand. We had fantastic time. The beach was quite busy on Thursday and not so much on Friday. Nearest car park is National Trust one and it's free for members or £7.50 per day for non-members but on busy days can be full by 10.30 (on our first day it was full at 11.30 but on the second it never got full). Alternatively you can park at Gara Rock where it's £2 in the honesty box and a beautiful walk through the forest for just under a mile. There is a two mile walk around the coast but we...
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Visited on a recent holiday in Devon and, despite being more than an hours drive from where we were staying, well worth it. The sea here is lovely and the beach clean and golden, so much so that it was easy to believe we had some how travelled abroad. Well worth a few hours if in the area - or even a little away from it. I would recommend parking in Salcombe and taking the foot ferry across as, while there is national trust parking a few steps from the beach, this seemed to fill up quickly and only be accessible down a number of small twisty single...
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Lovely sheltered cove with a very shallow tidal shelf, but watch out for anchors from boats that have visited the beach. The beach has a national trust car park, so members park for free. Beware that it is very difficult to get to this bay due to the very narrow lanes, but worth the visit. It's let down by the worst toilets you can imagine, run by the council, not the NT. There is a coastal path worth walking on, aided by QR codes on posts that give interesting information about the area. There is a small refreshment van selling drinks...
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