Outdoors

Also known as The Straad, St Ninian’s Bay is another small bay on the west coast of Bute.

The long sandy beach offers great vies of the Isle of Arran and is known for its superb sunsets.

Below the Loch Doon dam, the River Doon has carved a route through a beautiful wooded gorge.

Butter Lump is small rock a few yards offshore towards the South East of the island of Great Cumbrae.

The sand of Irvine beach is said to be immaculate.

Clyde Muirshiel - literally meaning "moorhut" - is the collective name for countryside set aside for conservation and recreation on the South Clyde estuary.

The beautiful Pirnmill beach located in the small village of Pirnmill on the north-west coast of the Arran.

The naturally occurring Glaid Stone marks the highest point of Great Cumbrae at 417ft.

Goatfell stands at 874 metres making it the highest point on Arran.

Loch Thom is a reservoir which since 1827 has provided a water supply to the town of Greenock

Loch Fad is a freshwater loch on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, ideal for fishing Rainbow and Brown Trout.

Orchard Gardens are beautiful gardens with herbaceous borders, formal pond and formal flowerbeds, which are always full of colour

Kilmory beach is one of Arran's hidden gems and is a stunning but peaceful beach, accessed either by farm track or by path from Lagg

Garratt Gardens, in memory of Charlie Garratt a much loved Vet.

Barassie Beach is situated just round the bend in the coast, from Troon Beach, meaning it does not get nearly as busy as Troon beach.