Ben’s guidebook

Ben
Ben’s guidebook

Walks near Tobermory

Otters, hen harriers, stag, dolphins, as well as Highland cows, can all be spotted in this area, the view from which streches 1,000km up to the furthest mountinas north in the Hebrides on a clear day. The name Glen Gorm means blue glen in Gaelic and refers to the blue haze on the horizon as you look out to the 'glen' that is the gulf of ocean inbetween Mull and the other mountains and islands. Coffee shop and nature trail guide nearby.
Glengorm Wildlife Project
Glengorm Road
Otters, hen harriers, stag, dolphins, as well as Highland cows, can all be spotted in this area, the view from which streches 1,000km up to the furthest mountinas north in the Hebrides on a clear day. The name Glen Gorm means blue glen in Gaelic and refers to the blue haze on the horizon as you look out to the 'glen' that is the gulf of ocean inbetween Mull and the other mountains and islands. Coffee shop and nature trail guide nearby.
Nice short walk in Tobermory. It's also worth extending this walk by starting or ending at the Fishermens Pier.
Tobermory Lighthouse
Nice short walk in Tobermory. It's also worth extending this walk by starting or ending at the Fishermens Pier.
Visit the pontoons and walk the main street on Tobermory to really take in the town.
Tobermory Harbour Association
Visit the pontoons and walk the main street on Tobermory to really take in the town.
Offers guided walks. 01688 301213
Mull Magic Wildlife Walks
Breadalbane Lane
Offers guided walks. 01688 301213
Ewan Miles is a wildlife guide in Dervaig running his own one man company doing wildlife tours. Contact him on his website naturescotland.com. Note that I just used the address of Bellacroy Hotel to give a rough home position for him. He can travel to meet you.
Bellachroy Hotel
Ewan Miles is a wildlife guide in Dervaig running his own one man company doing wildlife tours. Contact him on his website naturescotland.com. Note that I just used the address of Bellacroy Hotel to give a rough home position for him. He can travel to meet you.

Food scene

Recently renovated, this place still is the best place for coffee in town best experienced with a take away eaten on the Fishermens pier just in front. It is slight a head of The Scullary which is the better place to eat indoors as the tables are a lot bigger. The Scullary has a better and bigger food menu. https://www.facebook.com/tobermorybakery/ 01688 302225 26 Main Street Tobermory, Argyll and Bute
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Tobermory Bakery & Tea Room
A848
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Recently renovated, this place still is the best place for coffee in town best experienced with a take away eaten on the Fishermens pier just in front. It is slight a head of The Scullary which is the better place to eat indoors as the tables are a lot bigger. The Scullary has a better and bigger food menu. https://www.facebook.com/tobermorybakery/ 01688 302225 26 Main Street Tobermory, Argyll and Bute
Best seafood resturant in town. Great tasting food but recently become a bit of a tourist trap as the town has become more popular. Great views and romantic setting, with a couple of tables for large groups. £15 - £20 a meal. Phone: 01688 301253
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Cafe Fish
23 Main St
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Best seafood resturant in town. Great tasting food but recently become a bit of a tourist trap as the town has become more popular. Great views and romantic setting, with a couple of tables for large groups. £15 - £20 a meal. Phone: 01688 301253
Best place for a pint. Everyone goes here. Passing sailors to locals. They serve cheap pub grub too. Wifi has not worked though for the last few years as of August 2019. Phone: 01688 302500
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The Mishnish Hotel
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Best place for a pint. Everyone goes here. Passing sailors to locals. They serve cheap pub grub too. Wifi has not worked though for the last few years as of August 2019. Phone: 01688 302500
The supermarket in town open 7am-10pm Monday to Saturday, exsept Sunday 1230pm - 10pm. Located next to the clock tower on the mainstreet. 33 Main St, Tobermory, Isle of Mull PA75 6NT
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Co-op Food - Tobermory
33 Main St
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The supermarket in town open 7am-10pm Monday to Saturday, exsept Sunday 1230pm - 10pm. Located next to the clock tower on the mainstreet. 33 Main St, Tobermory, Isle of Mull PA75 6NT
An excellent seafood restruant just outside Dervaig selling locallly caught shellfish. Phone: 01688 400619 Am Birlinn, Dervaig, Tobermory, Isle of Mull PA75 6QS
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Am Birlinn
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An excellent seafood restruant just outside Dervaig selling locallly caught shellfish. Phone: 01688 400619 Am Birlinn, Dervaig, Tobermory, Isle of Mull PA75 6QS
The resturant with the best views in Tobermory and also the best vegertarian menu. Book ahead. 01688 302012 Address: 64 A848, Tobermory, Isle of Mull PA75 6PR
Western Isles
64 A848
The resturant with the best views in Tobermory and also the best vegertarian menu. Book ahead. 01688 302012 Address: 64 A848, Tobermory, Isle of Mull PA75 6PR
Fish and chip van on Tobermorys Fishermens Pier. Very good scallops and chips.
Fishermens Pier
45 Main St
Fish and chip van on Tobermorys Fishermens Pier. Very good scallops and chips.
Steak resturant with seafood Phone: 01688 301117 Address: Post Office Brae, Tobermory PA75 6NT
Galleon Grill
Steak resturant with seafood Phone: 01688 301117 Address: Post Office Brae, Tobermory PA75 6NT
Quiet high quality resturant just by the welcome signs to Tobermory serving good food. Phone: 01688 301207 Balliscate, Tobermory PA75 6QA
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Hebridean Lodge
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Quiet high quality resturant just by the welcome signs to Tobermory serving good food. Phone: 01688 301207 Balliscate, Tobermory PA75 6QA
The most beautiful cafe in Tobermory run by my old school friend Alexandria, say hi from Ben to her :)
The Gallery cafe
50 Main St
The most beautiful cafe in Tobermory run by my old school friend Alexandria, say hi from Ben to her :)
Chocolate shop with large variety of different chocolate and chocolate dips and a small cafe and wifi.
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Tobermory Chocolate
57 Main St
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Chocolate shop with large variety of different chocolate and chocolate dips and a small cafe and wifi.
Art Gallery and cafe
An Tobar
Argyll Terrace
Art Gallery and cafe

Walks outside Tobermory

The most beautiful beach on Mull. There is a great nature walk through the old Scots pine forest. The coastal walk takes you above the cliffs to old Calgary before they left for Canada. There is a public toilet and good facilities. Great place for a swim in summer. Phone: 01688 400256
Calgary Art In Nature
The most beautiful beach on Mull. There is a great nature walk through the old Scots pine forest. The coastal walk takes you above the cliffs to old Calgary before they left for Canada. There is a public toilet and good facilities. Great place for a swim in summer. Phone: 01688 400256
If you have a day to spare, Iona is worth the visit. Expensive once you get there so bring a lunch or something. Extremely busy in peak summer. Beautiful all year round. Can be reached by bus from Tobermory. Be aware of distance.
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Iona Abbey and Nunnery
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If you have a day to spare, Iona is worth the visit. Expensive once you get there so bring a lunch or something. Extremely busy in peak summer. Beautiful all year round. Can be reached by bus from Tobermory. Be aware of distance.
I think this is the most beautiful mountain on Mull and a smashed Canadian air force plane lays on the south face in a sharp burn cut into the mountainside where it rolled into.
Beinn Talaidh
I think this is the most beautiful mountain on Mull and a smashed Canadian air force plane lays on the south face in a sharp burn cut into the mountainside where it rolled into.
The highest mountain on Mull and the most popular. On a clear day you get views from Northern Ireland to Skye.
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Ben More
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The highest mountain on Mull and the most popular. On a clear day you get views from Northern Ireland to Skye.
The biggest cave in the Hebrides, it is super long. An old magma tube. The end goes into some fallen rocks so it could go on further.
Mackinnon’s Cave
The biggest cave in the Hebrides, it is super long. An old magma tube. The end goes into some fallen rocks so it could go on further.
A seculed white sandy beach on the Ross.
Uisken
A seculed white sandy beach on the Ross.
Secret beach by Fidden. Remote, beautiful white sandy beach hidden amongst rocky outcrops.
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Knockvologan
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Secret beach by Fidden. Remote, beautiful white sandy beach hidden amongst rocky outcrops.
Dun Ara Bathing Pool is a constructed bathing pool accessable at low tide. 45 minutes from Glengorm Castle.
Dùn Ara Castle
Dun Ara Bathing Pool is a constructed bathing pool accessable at low tide. 45 minutes from Glengorm Castle.

Summer boat trips

Whale and dolphin watching trip operating from Tobermory. Expensive at about £70 per person but has a 95%+ success rate for spotting some kind of large sea creature, hopefully a whale. Phone: 01688 302916
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Whale and dolphin watching trip operating from Tobermory. Expensive at about £70 per person but has a 95%+ success rate for spotting some kind of large sea creature, hopefully a whale. Phone: 01688 302916
Turus Mara boat trip. The quickest and cheapest boat ride to Lunga and Staffa. You need to either take the minibus or drive to Ulva Ferry. My choice of boat trip. Coffee and tea on board. Operates in summer. Phone: 0800 085 8786
Ulva Ferry Landing station
Turus Mara boat trip. The quickest and cheapest boat ride to Lunga and Staffa. You need to either take the minibus or drive to Ulva Ferry. My choice of boat trip. Coffee and tea on board. Operates in summer. Phone: 0800 085 8786

Drives

Griburn cliffs to Treshnish along the west coast of Mull is a great little drive along cliffs torn up by the Atlantic and glacial erosion. Do the full loop by inputting Treshnish, Balnahard, and Torasay into you GPS.
Balnahard
Griburn cliffs to Treshnish along the west coast of Mull is a great little drive along cliffs torn up by the Atlantic and glacial erosion. Do the full loop by inputting Treshnish, Balnahard, and Torasay into you GPS.

Diving

The Highland tectonic plate is deeply glaciated, but most of it lies under water. Take a dive here and discover the steep clean cut cliffs just 15m under the surface. Take a surreal leap off the cliff under water and slowly drop into the deep abyss. The underwater glen is like a fjord and thebottom is around a hundred meters down and not divable so you have to keep an eye on your depth gauge and remember were your jacket inflation, and also emergency air release is. Shoals of fish swim above you in the distant sun light.
Lochaline O2cafe and bunkhouse
The Highland tectonic plate is deeply glaciated, but most of it lies under water. Take a dive here and discover the steep clean cut cliffs just 15m under the surface. Take a surreal leap off the cliff under water and slowly drop into the deep abyss. The underwater glen is like a fjord and thebottom is around a hundred meters down and not divable so you have to keep an eye on your depth gauge and remember were your jacket inflation, and also emergency air release is. Shoals of fish swim above you in the distant sun light.
Remember as a yurt guest you are welcome to have a swim in the pool anytime. Directions are in the house manual.
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Isle of Mull Cheese
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Remember as a yurt guest you are welcome to have a swim in the pool anytime. Directions are in the house manual.

Cycling routes and bike hire

Electric bike hire. Good for bike rides to Glengorm Caste (20 minutes) or Calgary beach (about 1hr). Google the phone number for prices.
Beadoun Agri
Eas Brae
Electric bike hire. Good for bike rides to Glengorm Caste (20 minutes) or Calgary beach (about 1hr). Google the phone number for prices.
Cycle to the most westerly point of the mainland UK by taking a short ferry crossing from Tobermory.
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Ardnamurchan Point and Lighthouse
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Cycle to the most westerly point of the mainland UK by taking a short ferry crossing from Tobermory.