Lower Largo Beach

A wide sandy beach with rocks lower down the shore,it runs just below the houses of Lower Largo, an attractive village and the birthplace of Alexander Selkirk. Selkirk was a member of several buccaneer expeditions to the South Seas in the early 1700s. Cast away on an uninhabited island off Chile he survived for 4 years before being rescued and becoming the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's book 'Robinson Crusoe'.