Tobermory to Muck to Rum 17 July 2022

Island of Rum with wonderful cloud formation 

The day started with frantic activity in Tobermory.  The cruise ship Ambience (1400 passengers) was anchored just off the town and tenders, each of which could carry 141 passengers, were coming in on a regular basis.  The Staffatours boats were picking up passengers and the marina was bunged.  The Harbourmaster was going nuts.  

Cruise ship Ambience and one of its tenders

We left at 10.45 and headed for Muck - one of the Small Isles, with just 27 inhabitants. We tied up to one of the Mowi (a fish farming company) very large commercial moorings in the hope that rightful owners didn’t turn up while we were there. That gave us a the opportunity to go ashore and find the café recommended by Tom from Redbay Boats.  Good coffee (filter) and superb crab baps.
Chocness Cafe on Muck and the superb crab bap we had for lunch. Highly recommended!

From Muck we headed to Rum with wonderful cloud formation all the way.


We were very lucky to get a visitors mooring in Loch Scresort at Rum.  Very calm so extremely pleasant.  The Loch had at least half a dozen Red-throated Divers, loads of Eiders, Oystercatchers, Grey Herons and Curlew.  

We walked to Kinloch Castle - an enormous pile of red sandstone, in a weird state of dereliction with some of it left over from being a hostel until 2015, but much of it with original furniture and soft fittings all slowly mouldering and disintegrating.

Kinloch Castle - the first home outside of Glasgow to have electricity. It’s a ridiculously large vanity pile.

A weird mix of mouldering artefacts inside.  Where’s Wally?!







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