Lismore lighthouse

Not an official anchorage but that does not mean one cannot anchor here, better on the east than the west side, for a short while to have an explore. And well worth while it is too, to stand on the terrace looking out on the swirling tide and the boats going to and from the Sound of Mull. As ever the lighthouse, the two cottages and associated buildings are all beautifully proportioned and constructed, particularly the curving wall bounding the path through the garden where once the lighthouse keepers would have grown their vegetables. And of course it is yet another Stevenson designed lighthouse, built in 1833 and automated in 1965. What the two very large walled fields were for I don’t know (surely too large for a garden), and nor the arched bridge connecting one island with the other for no obvious purpose - just imagine how much it would cost now to build them. Back in the 1990s the cottages were for sale and presumably are now privately owned but I have never seen anyone around there during my many, many trips past the lighthouse. By the way, off here is where I want my ashes scattered when the time comes.