LOCAL ACTIVITIES

Fishing - as guests at Claddie you may fish the last 0.4 mile (0.65km) of the River Auchalick - which runs past the cottage - without additional charge (season 14th March - 6th October). With skill or good luck you may catch brown trout, sea trout or salmon. Freshwater loch fishings are also available locally, some of them at very moderate rates. 

Kyles of Bute Angling Club - Loch Ascog (fly only), Powder Works reservoir and Tighnabruaich reservoir - permits obtainable from Kames Post Office, Telephone 01700-811877.

Sea angling and rowing - this is included in the price (April - October). We provide a rowing boat for your use in and around the bay (at your own risk - and please do not venture outside the bay when the wind is blowing off the shore). 

Hill walking, wildlife study (bring crayons etc. for your entry in the Wildlife Diary which you will find in the cottage), beachcombing, river pool swimming, sea swimming.

Books, games, TV, radio, table tennis - these are all provided at the cottage.

ACTIVITIES within easy driving

Within 10 miles (16 km) are the Kyles of Bute (National Scenic Area), with an excellent Sailing School, (dinghy sailing and windsurfing tuition weekly and daily (www.tssargyll.co.uk). Nine-hole golf course, public all-seasons tennis court, ceilidhs, discos, summer steamer trips - all the delights that you may be wishing to escape from! Also within easy reach are several excellent eating places - listed in the cottage.

Within an hour or so is the historic town of Inveraray (seat of the Dukes of Argyll) and all the majestic mountains of the Cowal Peninsula. Botanic Gardens, Arboretum, Forest Park - some of Scotland's finest and least known scenery. Leaflets in the cottage describe many local visitor attractions.

For guests who like to go touring, there is a year-round car ferry service between Portavadie (south of Tigh Cladaich) and Tarbert, picturesque home of the Loch Fyne herring fleet. From Tarbert you can explore the Kintyre peninsula - remote indeed until local resident Paul McCartney wrote a song about it. Details of this and other Caledonian MacBrayne ferry services are given in their leaflet 'Hebridean and Clyde Ferries', obtainable from Tourist Offices - or by telephoning (from UK) 01475-650100. For information about P&O's ferry service between Kintyre and Northern Ireland, phone (from UK) 08705-523523.