Outdoors

The Discovery Centre and Winter Garden is just a short walk from the ferry terminal and so makes a great starting place for visitors to Bute.

This beach lies between Maidens and Dunure, and is a mixture of both sand and rocky outcrops

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

Gently climb up to the Stone Dragon at Irvine Beach Park for stunning views of the Firth of Clyde and islands.

The Greeto Waterfalls are along the Gogo water, in Gogo Glen near the town of Largs.

The West Island Way is a long distance walking path route on the Island of Bute.

Blackwaterfoot beach is a stunning sandy beach in the tranquill village of Blackwaterfoot.

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

Kildonan beach is also known as Silver Sands due to its incredible beauty and clean sands.

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

Tairlaw Linn is a waterfall near Straiton in South Ayrshire.

The stunning Ardencraig Gardens, situated in Rothesay, were originally designed as part of the nearby Ardencraig House.

The Electric Brae is a gravity hill in Ayrshire, Scotland, where a freewheeling vehicle will appear to be drawn uphill by some mysterious attraction

Muirshiel Visitor Centre & Country Park gives easy access to ‘great walking in hen harrier countryside’ in what was once an impressive Victorian shooting estate