Carsaig Bay

This is a really grand spot with towering volcanic cliffs surrounding a fertile limestone glen. If you anchor behind the island, there are a lot of seals, but I prefer the grandeur of the bay myself. Ashore there is nothing special to see but there is a delightful walk from the crumbling pier up through deciduous and pine woods. And the view from the pier across the rocks at low tide to Jura is pretty good too. If you want to be really energetic (which I have not yet managed), one of the great walks in Scotland is under the cliffs to the west to the Carsaig Arches, but it takes about five hours there and back (but you can sort of "do" the arches from the sea anyway). A lot of the marvellous 1945 romantic film "I know where I am going" was filmed here, on the pier with crashing waves preventing the heroine getting to the Island of Kiloran (aka Colonsay) to be married - with Wendy Hiller and Richard Livesey, and a very young Petula Clark.