A small vehicle ferry crosses Cuan Sound in five minutes to reach Luing, shuttling back and forth from the south end of Seil, run by Argyll and Bute Council. Like its slate-island neighbours, Luing quarried roofing slate at Cullipool and Toberonochy until the 1960s; both are still the island’s main villages, rows of quarriers’ cottages facing the water, one on the west coast and one on the east. Cattle are now as well known from Luing as slate ever was. The Luing breed, a cross of Highland and Beef Shorthorn developed here by the Cadzow family from 1947, is now farmed as far afield as Australia and Canada. A single road runs the length of the island, quiet enough for cycling, with views out to Scarba and the low, uninhabited Garvellachs on a clear day.
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