Qingdao has seven public beaches and No. 1 is the biggest. As one of the largest public beaches in China, it attracts huge crowds along its hundreds of meters of shoreline during the summer months, who come to sunbathe and swim under the watchful eye of some of the country's only lifeguards. Ammenities abound nearby: restaurants, hotels, showers, changing rooms, water sports rentals and the like. Beaches 2 - 7 are usually less populated but are smaller with less amenities and some are too rocky for the sun-worshipping crowd.