Nightnurse
when we left Goa in early December they were building beach shacks all along Candolim beach, way past the River Princess towards Sinquerim.
The beach at Sinquerim towards Fort Aguarda was quite badly eroded, massive bags of sand meant to keep the monsoon tides back were exposed and looked like beached whales.
There were very few beach shacks along there, to be honest, there wasn't a lot of flat land to build anyway but by now they may have sorted that out.
Maybe your friends meant THAT part of Candolim beach.