For enquires and bookings please do not hesitate to contact us by telephone

to discuss the availability of accommodation and to find out more about

Blackpark Croft,

Bridgend,

Isle of Islay,

Argyll,

Scotland,

PA44 7PL

Telephone

+44 (0)1496 810376

We very much

look forward

to hearing from you,

Angus and Isabel

McLugash

Registered ASSC

2010

Association of Scotland's

Self-Caterers

Quality Assurance Scheme

Scottish Tourist Board’s Disabled Access Award Category 2

Blackpark Croft Holiday Cottages 2009-2010 www.islaycottagesblackpark.co.uk

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PLACES TO VISIT

WILDLIFE WATCHING

Islay has an exceptional diversity of landscape and vegetation varying from heathery hill ground, peat mosses, sea and freshwater lochs, sea cliffs, saltmarsh and mudflats, sand dunes, beaches, machair grassland, woodland and peaty burns. Farmland includes meadows, pastures and arable crops. This mosaic of habitats supports a rich variety of birds and other wildlife including choughs, eagles, Greenland Whitefront and Barnacle Geese, deer, wild goats and seals with good opportunities for sea watching off the western coast for dolphins and whales.

HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE

The history of human settlement on Islay has left a legacy of features reflecting its past including burial mounds, standing stones, ruined chapels and deserted monuments.The legacy of the Lordship  of the Isles at Finlaggan, the High Cross at Kildalton, and the American monument at the Oa (below) are some of the sites worth visiting.

BEACHES

For those who enjoy beaches there are over twenty beaches on Islay where you can be guaranteed peace and solitude.  Machir beach at Kilchoman, Killinallan, Traigh ban (Singing Sands) on the Oa, Loch Indaal and the Big Strand are some to choose from.

WHISKY DISTILLERIES

There are nine world famous distilleries which you can visit whilst on Islay. Supplies of peat, lochs and burns filled with pure soft water and a supply of barely, have enabled that very special whisky to be made here since the fourteenth century.

Bunnahabhain Distillery

Kildalton Cross

Spring flowers on Machir Bay sand dunes

Spring Hare

Winter Storm at Saligo Bay

Loch Gruinart RSPB Reserve, Autumn Geese arrival

Sanaig looking towards Ardnave

Sanaig Cliffs

Traigh Ban Singing Sands & Carraig Fhada Lighthouse

Killinallan Dunes and Beach

You can easily access Jura from Islay where Red Deer outnumber people!

Just take the Jura ferry from

Port Askaig.

The Paps of Jura tower over the island and they are surrounded by rough craggy uninhabited coastline with the Corrywreckan whirlpool to the north. Craighouse Bay to the east is a beautiful bay where Palm trees grow !