Scottish anchorages

This seems to be a favourite bolt hole if you are on passage around the west side of Mull, or having a rough time out at the Treshnish Islands. It certainly gets loads of boats but there is loads of room. There are two anchorages on Gometra, an island which is connected to Ulva by a causeway – Gometra harbour here in the south, and Acarsaid Mor in the north, so good in all winds. You can walk between them along a farm track which makes a very pleasant stroll with stunning views from Mull to Iona to Treshnish to Coll. There is a smashing little beach at the head of the first bay west of Gometra harbour and before that an unkempt burial ground just up from the anchorage - Bail' A'Chlaidh, in which are buried three unidentified men of the British Merchant Navy from the second world war. There are several abandoned cottages on the hill near by.

Gometra House is 18th century and seems to command a well organised farm with a lot of sheep, and signposts to direct you around the place (tipped with light blue which makes one wonder if the owner is a Cambridge man). Apparently grain was once grown here for the monastery on Iona. Now the resident population of the whole island is only three which is not too surprising given the difficulty getting supplies from the mainland to Mull to Ulva to Gometra.

So not a lot specific to see and do, just a place to be.