Village, bay and beach on Gibraltar’s eastern Mediterranean coast.
Sandy Bay is a village, bay and beach on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Gibraltar, south of Catalan Bay and reached via Sir Herbert Miles Road. Above it lay Gibraltar’s Great Sand Dune water catchments, later dismantled and revegetated. A nearby road and the Dudley Ward Tunnel link towards Europa Point.
Sandy Bay is a village, bay and beach on a small bay on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Gibraltar, on the opposite side of The Rock from the main city. It lies south of Catalan Bay and is accessible via Sir Herbert Miles Road. The area forms one of the few residential zones on Gibraltar’s east side, known as Both Worlds. Directly above Sandy Bay and the coastal road were Gibraltar’s large water catchments, now disused. They were built on the Great Gibraltar Sand Dune, an ancient consolidated sand dune dominating the Rock’s eastern side. Its naturally smooth surface enabled the construction of a catchment formed from corrugated steel sheets and concrete, funnelling rainwater into an open channel that fed reservoirs inside the Rock. These catchments were expanded in stages between 1903 and 1961. In 2001, the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society began dismantling the catchment structures. By 2006 the slope had been restored to a natural state and covered with native vegetation. Regeneration works for the beach culminated on 25 June 2014, when officials inaugurated a renewed Sandy Bay after major public investment, enlarging the beach with about 50,000 tons of imported sand and protecting it using curved groynes and breakwaters.
