This anchorage is more popular than you might imagine, given the tidal difficulties in the area. However, it is a great place to settle down and watch the sunset over Mull, with the rugged rocks all around. Anyway, there is plenty of room for several boats as well as intrepid campers on the beach. The beach itself looks pretty good for a barbeque although watch the swell when getting back in the tender. Walk up one of the small hills to catch the view, and of course walk round the north point of the island to look at — and listen to — the Corryvreckan (in translation, the cauldron of the speckled sea) which is at its most impressive when there is a flood tide against a swell from the west.
In September listen to the roaring stags silhouetted on the surrounding hills at dusk, far more deer on Jura than people, about 6000. Strangely, Pennant reckoned there were only "about a hundred stags" on the island in the late 18th century, so either he got his arithmetic wrong or the numbers have increased remarkably (A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772. Thomas Pennant, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 1998). Also if the numbers were so low, why was the island's name derived, I am told, from 'dyroe', Norse for deer.
