In the fourteenth Century violent storms buried much of the coastline under sand dunes. The area now forms part of the National Nature Reserve and gets its name from the huge number of rabbits that colonised the dunes until the myxomytosis epidemic of the 1950s. Today the reserve is populated by a variety of plants including marram grass, dune pansies and the marsh orchid. Birds and reptiles can also be found in abundance. The beach offers spectacular views across the Menai Strait to the Llyn Peninsula on the Welsh mainland.
