I know not why this bay is not included in the Sailing Directions, but as ever Antares Charts include it. On a calm day with northerly weather it is superb, a wide-open bay looking over towards Tobermory. The single-track road above the bay is far enough away not to be obtrusive, and anyway there is not much traffic, at least not out of the holiday season. Ashore there is a somewhat sandy beach, OK for sand castles, and behind that a well-tended field with sheep. But not just sheep. Over the centuries the farmers have kept away from and have now enclosed an 18th century burial ground with a couple of interesting headstones and even a standing stone on which is carved a Christian cross, and also some trees surrounding a broken-down chambered cairn. These, along with scattered domestic ruins, give the place a sad sort of a feeling, but the views are not to be missed, on a good day of course. There is an iron-age fort on the headland to the southwest which I have not got to yet.
For the Gaelic cognoscenti, Camas nan Geall is incorrect because this bay has been known locally for centuries as the Bay of the Stranger — of St Columba himself — so it should be Camas nan Gall. Geall apparently means promise, not stranger.
