You can't get to the beach at Worbarrow Bay by car or bicycle. You'll have to leave your vehicle at Tyneham car park and walk the last half mile. When you get there you'll find the beach has little sand and is mainly stone. So why does it have the reputation with the locals of being the best beach in the area? Maybe because the effort to get there guarantees that it will always be quiet. But there is more to Worbarrow Bay than this. The surrounding scenery is, simply, stunning. And for swimmers there is no greater pleasure than to slip into its calm waters and quickly go down the steep shelf which puts you in deep water very fast. This is also why the boats come here. They can drop anchor only a few meters from the shoreline knowing that they have the only vehicle that can get here. To the east of the bay Warbarrow Tout dominates. Climb it and look back to the east and you'll get a glimpse of the Purbeck coastline. Down below is another bay - Brandy Bay - which as the name suggest was popular with smugglers in times gone by. In days gone by it was also a popular place for the fishermen who brought the crab and lobster ashore. But there is little of that now. Trade and commerce are left behind down on the beach at Worbarrow Bay.