⚓ Scottish AnchoragesCharles Warlow

Tarbert Bay

55.9669, -5.83226 Locate on map
A stag not at bay, but by the bay
A stag not at bay, but by the bay

The beach is a disappointment but behind it you will find a couple of standing stones, a burial ground with a small rectangular ruin of maybe a chapel (Cill Chalium-chille), and when I was there once a load of stags mixed up with some sheep. The dreadful large wooden hutted building looking like an industrial chicken farm is in fact the estate shooting lodge! Hardly 'Monarch of the Glen' style I would say. There doesn't seem much point but you could easily walk from here to the head of Loch Tarbert in less than half-an-hour, maybe to inspect the anchorage before trying to get to it from the sea.

Rather tame stags
Rather tame stags
A standing stone above the anchorage
A standing stone above the anchorage
The burial ground above the anchorage
The burial ground above the anchorage