Totland Beach

Totland is fast becoming one of my favourite Island beaches. It is mostly shingly, with parts that are predominantly made up of rounded flint. There is a seawall, and an old lifeboat station, both slowly becoming dilapidated, wooden groynes holding the beach in place, and the shattered remains of a Victorian pier. By the road entrance is a toilet block, two blocks of flats that have seen better days but are being renovated, and slightly further on is a restaurant. At the start of the pier is a recently built wooden building, presumably to be a cafe but it looks unoccupied. Beyond this, the seawall continues towards Colwell Bay but comes to a sudden stop where a recent landslip rendered it unsafe. 

Every time I have been here there have been few people around, and those that were there were either locals or more plucky tourists. The atmosphere is relaxed. On our visit yesterday we discovered a large barrel jellyfish in the surf, which was gradually washed up onto the shore. It was beautiful, with a blue dome with violet edging, and violet tentacles. We got utterly over-excited about it as we'd never seen a jellyfish like it.