⚓ Scottish AnchoragesCharles Warlow

Soa Island

56.2876, -6.4586 Locate on map
Looking down on Calypso at anchor
Looking down on Calypso at anchor

Not really an overnight anchorage but rather good for a lunch stop. At the head of the inlet is a white shell beach which I suspect covers at high tide. Ashore there are loads of wild flowers and nesting birds — fulmars, shags and oystercatchers mostly. If you make the effort to clamber up to the top of the hill above the anchorage there is a fantastic panorama from Iona to Mull to the Torran rocks to Jura to Colonsay to Islay to Tiree, Coll and the Treshnish islands.

At anchor pointing towards the beach
At anchor pointing towards the beach
Calypso from above
Calypso from above