home to one of the few residential areas on the east side of The Rock, known as Both Worlds. Regeneration works On 25 June 2014, officials of Gibraltar inaugurated the new Sandy Bay after a considerable public investment to recover the almost non-existent beach. The works enlarged the beach with approximately 50,000 tons of sand imported from Laayoune in the Western Sahara. Two curved groynes and a frontal breakwater were constructed to protect the beach from the full erosional impact of wave action and trap shifting sand, including a submerged breakwater connecting the ends of both groynes. See also Catalan Bay Eastern Beach, Gibraltar References Bays of Gibraltar Beaches of Gibraltar Areas of Gibraltar