Oxwich Bay

Its landscape features sand dunes, salt marshes and woodland.

It is a popular spot for swimming and watersports including diving, sailing, water skiing and windsurfing.

[2] A wetland site at the rear of the dunes forms Oxwich Burrows National Nature Reserve.

[5] Within the nature reserve there are rare plants such as the dune gentian and the round-leafed wintergreen, insects such as the small blue, beachcomber beetle and the hairy dragonfly while the wetlands are important for birds, a bird hide is located at Whitestones which is accessed by a boardwalk through the wetlands.

The birds present include water rail, little grebe and wildfowl, as well as the occasional wintering great bittern.

Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula of South Wales