Scottish anchorages

Loch Sunart

This is seriously tricky to get into. I have never attempted west of Carna, only the east side. The first and so far only time, I managed to avoid the rock at the south end of Caol Charna on the way in, and so pleased was I with myself that I then hit it on the way out - hubris before nemesis. My co-owner had done exactly the same some years earlier so I felt OK about it. Serpulids, tube-like shells containing colonies of red and orange worms forming coral-like reefs, were found in the upper basin of the loch in about 10ft of water, in 2006. There are very few other places in the world where you can find them, one of which is Loch Creran. Fortunately very few boats come here to anchor so presumably the reefs will remain more or less undisturbed.

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