This is a small island of the Inner Hebrides. It is worth seeing on any tours of Scotland. The island has magnificent cliffs and caves formed of columnar basalt. They were shaped by the cooling process associated with volcanic action. It lies off the West coast of Mull. It was...
This is the largest island of the Inner Hebrides. Worth a visit on any tours of Scotland. It is an island with a great variety of landscapes. It has rough moorlands to the North, and a hilly centre. Ben More is 3169 feet tall. There are also some beautiful lochs...
These hidden gems are a small group of islands in the Inner Hebrides. They are a group of six islands of the West coast of Mull. The islands are noted for their unusual and curious shapes. Very interesting on any tours of Scotland. The “Dutchmans Cap” island is an...
A mere three miles long by one and a half wide – composed of Torridonian sandstone, curiously unrelated geologically to neighbouring Mull – Iona is richer in Christian association than any other Scottish Island. In 563AD St Columba left Ireland with 12 companions to come...
In this castle, on the southern side of the Ardnamurchan peninsula, James IV stayed in 1495 while on a campaign to subdue the recalcitrant Highland chiefs. Mingary Castle predates the King by over 200 years, however, parts of it having been erected in the 13th...
From the rugged ridges of Ben More and the black basalt crags of Burg to the blinding white sand, rose-pink granite and emerald waters that fringe the Ross, Mull can lay claim to some of the finest and most varied scenery in the Inner Hebrides....
From the rasping spout of a minke whale as it breaks he surface of the sea off the coast of Islay, to the mysterious ‘krek-krek-krek’ of a corncake hiding amid the long summer grass of Coll, the coast and islands of southwest Scotland are filled...