Neds Beach (LH 1) is one of the more popular beaches on the island. It occupies the southern 550 m of a semicircular 500 m wide northeast-facing embayment (Fig. 4.442). The road from the main Settlement runs for about 1 km right to the beach, where a large grassy park, picnic shelter and barbeque facilities are located. The beach is backed by basaltic cliffs and slopes rising to 210 m at Malabar Hill in the north, with exposed calcarenite cliffs forming the southern slopes. The picnic area occupies the lower central section. The beach is 20-30 m wide and relatively steep, with rock and coral reefs coming close to the shore. The entire floor of the bay is shallow being covered by rocks, reefs and sand. The orientation of the beach and shallow bay floor ensures that waves are usually low, averaging less than 0.5 m. Under these conditions they break over the more shallow reefs and are very low at the beach face, providing relatively quiet areas for swimming and snorkelling. read more

Beach Length: 0.55km