If
you like your beaches high wide and handsome you will like Colwyn
Bay Beach. Stretching 
3
miles from Rhos Point to Penmaenhead, Colwyn Bay beach offers
a variety of attractions. To the west end of the beach in Rhos-on-Sea
is the picturesque Rhos Harbour. The harbour formed by the rock breakwater
shelters a mix of private pleasure boats and busy little fishing boats
that offer fishing trips out into the Irish Sea.
The promenade
at Rhos-on-Sea has a great selection of cafes, coffee bars, seaside
kiosks, and quality restaurants. Frequented by visitors and locals alike
they can be bustling in the deep mid winter! And if you are a bird watcher
the Rhos Harbour Bistro offers a unique opportunity to enjoy good food
and drink while watching the oystercatchers, dunlins, cormorants and
many more seabirds that are to be found at Rhos Point and Rhos Harbour
rocks. (Tip. Best time for bird-watching in the Bistro are 1
hour before and 1 hour after
high tide.)
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The Colwyn Bay section of the beach also offers popular seaside
kiosks, each with their own little community of regular customers. (Yours
truly uses the Cayley Kiosk near the Cayley Promenade).
A new beach community
has appeared over the last few years, the noisy jet ski band of brothers!
But they have now been banished from the Pier area nearer to the
Old Colwyn end thus enabling the locals and visitors alike to enjoy the
wide expanse of golden sands that make up the central part of Colwyn
Bay beach.
The sandy beach continues eastward toward Old Colwyn before
turning to a pebble beach around the Penmaen-head-land, much favoured
by the anglers.
When the tide is high the Old Colwyn end of the beach
is taken over by the hardy angling folk who brave the winter storms to
hook those elusive sea bass, cod and flat fish. Mind you some days I
believe more fish are put into the waters as bait than are ever taken
out as catches!
Cycling along the North Wales Coast Cycle Path is another
popular pastime on Colwyn Bay promenade, but beware that YOU don't
get "hooked"
while cycling past the anglers on Colwyn Bay beach!
Directions:
From Chester or Holyhead take the A55 Expressway to Junction 22 at Old
Colwyn. Take the slip road and follow the signs to the Promenade. Free
Parking is available on the Promenade.
Facilities: Toilets, Seaside
Kiosks and Restaurants.(Rhos on Sea end). Pier, (dilapidated) with refurbished
Cafe , Bar, and Angling supplies.
