glenelg

Glenelg, a thriving community of more than 3,000 souls until the Highland Clearances, is now a scattered parish extending from the Pass of Mam Ratagan (the only vehicle access, via the old military road from the A87 at Shiel Bridge) to Corran on the shores of Loch Hourn.
The attractive old village offers good facilities including a shop and post office, school, new community hall, modern medical centre and Inn serving bar meals.
Notable monuments include the romantic ruins of General Wade’s 18thC barracks, home to a family of barn owls, and the Glenelg brochs, the best preserved of these Iron-Age fortified dwellings on the Scottish mainland.

On the way to Corran if you are feeling energetic you might wish to take the track down through the forest to Sandaig Island, the Camusfearna of Gavin Maxwell’s Ring of Bright Water, where the author’s pet otter Edal and the ashes of Gavin Maxwell himself are buried.
Glenelg is an excellent centre for hill-walkers, within easy reach of many Munroes, including Beinn Sgritheall, the dominant mountain of the Glenelg area, most conveniently accessible from Arnisdale.

Highland Wildlife
The Glenelg area is rich in wildlife and you should certainly see quite a few of the following :

Cormorants and Shags
Eider and other duck, particularly in the migratory season
Oyster catchers, Herons, Curlews and other shoreline waders
Buzzards, Sea (white-tailed) eagles
Golden eagles (a nesting pair in Glen Beag, near the Brochs)
Other smaller raptors, including Sparrow hawks
Barn owls, Tawny owls, Ravens

Seals
Dolphins, Otters
Basking sharks, Whales
Pine martens
Red deer (from October you may hear the stags roaring in the mountains)
Wild goats

A spectacular 11-mile journey to the end of the road at Corran, via the picturesque old fishing village of Arnisdale, will afford superb views across the Sound of Sleat to the Isle of Skye, the Cuillin hills and the islands of Eigg and Rum to the south-west. At the end of the road you can enjoy a cup of tea and home-baking at Sheena’s world famous Tea-Hut, and you may be lucky enough to glimpse Bin-Laden, the village mascot, a tame stag so named because he lives in the mountains and nobody knows where he is!