Wheelchairs on the beach

[RoseAnne]

Can anyone recommend ways of pushing a wheelchair across a beach? We're about to go on holiday with my parents and my father uses a manual wheelchair.

At Great Yarmouth you can borrow (or hire) a wheelchair that is good on the sand.....not sure of any details tho' - sorry

look here

Thanks katymac This has started me off on a hunt around the Internet. I didn't even know that there was such a thing as a Beach Wheelchair.
Really grateful for your help!

i think you can buy them - but they are expensive, look on ebay?

otherwise you have to drag backwards which would be impossible with a full grown adult

Yes it would be difficult, we have not long come back from holiday where I had to pull my daughters wheelchair backwards over the sand, and that was really hard and she is only 4 1/2 ( and very small for her age)!

We were recently in Great Yarmouth visiting relatives and the wheelchairs are the same as normal ones except they have big plastic wheels I would say about 12 inches in diameter (or maybe bigger) and about 6 inches wide. Didn't see anyone using them though so no idea how hard they would be to push.
When we take my dad on holiday we can never fit his wheelchair in with all of the luggage so we contact the local tourist information centre and they can usually help.