Gigha Oysters

Back-to-back white sandy beaches either side of a tombolo at the north end of Gigha.

4 km N

A hundred miles down the Kintyre peninsula, from Tarbert on Loch Fyne to Machrihanish on the Atlantic, by way of Campbeltown

4.6 km E · Argyll and Bute

A cosy Argyll pub-with-rooms at the end of a 30-mile single-track coastal road on the Knapdale peninsula.

15.6 km NE · Argyll and Bute

Whisky distilleries round the coast, winter geese at RSPB Loch Gruinart, Finlaggan's Lords of the Isles site and the Kildalton Cross

17.2 km W

Thinly peopled island of the three Paps and thousands of red deer, with Craighouse's distillery and Orwell's Barnhill in the far north

18 km NW · Argyll and Bute

Sheltered curve of sand on Kintyre's east coast looking across Kilbrannan Sound to Arran.

20.4 km SE