242. Glencallum Bay

This was a superb walk and the highlight of my day on the Isle of Bute. Altogether, I pieced together an eight-mile, three-beach hike around the far southern coast of the island, starting and ending in the tiny village of Kilchattan Bay. Heading first down the eroded coastal path south of the village to the pretty Rubh’an Eun lighthouse, around beautiful Glencallum Bay and up following the West Island Way until I veered off west past the airstrip and golf course. On this fresh spring morning, the grey volcanic sandy bay at Glencallum was picture-perfect. The remains of an old inn behind the bay told of busier times, when the bay here was a stopping point for a mainland ferry.