As part of the deal on the B+B we booked for Iona, we got a boat trip out to Lunga (in the Treshnish Islands) and Staffa.
The journey was a wee bit rough at times but I kept telling myself I’d survived the journey to St Kilda …and this was shorter.
Lunga is home to a big colony of puffins- so unafraid of human visitors that we were able to get within arms length of some of them and their burrows on the cliffs.
A particular rock on Lunga (well separated by a wee gully) is the Dun Cruit (the Harp Rock stack), home to thousands (no exaggeration) of guillemot, razorbill, kittiwake, fulmar, shag, and bonxies (skua). A really busy and smelly bit of rock!
I managed to pull myself away from the puffins for a wee while and walk a circuit of the island, taking in its highest point. Stunning views – including over the remains of a ruined village on Lunga which was abandoned in 1857.
We carried on to Staffa where we walked along the basaltic columns into Fingals’ cave: an awesome natural cathedral. I felt a Mendelssohn tune coming on…
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