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.