Seixeliño, Rock and white sand beach in O Grove, Spain

Seixeliño is a small cove beach in O Grove, on the Ría de Arousa side of the O Salnés peninsula, reached from the road between A Lanzada and San Vicente. It is about 150 metres long and 40 metres wide, with fine white sand in the middle and rock slabs and boulders at both ends. At low tide the rocky margins are exposed and small pools remain between the stones.

Seixeliño lies on the northern shore of the O Grove peninsula, a stretch of coast long tied to shellfish gathering and small-scale fishing in the Ría de Arousa. The surrounding beaches of A Lanzada and Area Grande have drawn summer bathers since the early 20th century, when O Grove began promoting its sands; Seixeliño remained the quieter, rock-fringed neighbour used by locals working the intertidal zone.

Seixeliño takes its name from seixo, the Galician word for pebble, a reference to the rounded stones worn by the Atlantic surf at this end of O Grove's coast. Bathers move between the sand strip and the rock shelves, and the shallow basins left at low tide are where children hunt for crabs and small fish.

The beach is easily accessible via the La Lanzada - San Vicente road, with public transport stops less than a kilometer away. The sand and rocks are easiest to explore at low tide, though high tide reveals the natural pools formed between rocky zones.

Seixeliño lies just south of the better-known Praia da Lanzada, on the same stretch of O Grove coast, yet it stays far less visited. Bathers reach it on foot along the sand from Lanzada at low tide, when the rocky platforms between the two beaches are exposed.