Outdoors

Dunure Beach is mostly shingle and popular for walking and boat trips. Dunure Harbour offers a great place to stop and enjoy quality dining by the sea.

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

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

This wide sandy beach boasts excellent views out over the Firth of Clyde and across to Arran.

Ballantrae beach is a nature reserve that offers nesting grounds for a wide variety of birds in the nearby cliffs

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

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

Loch Iorsa sits in a scenic glen on the west of Arran. It runs through the heart of Dougarie Estate.

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

Byne Hill is part of a popular walking route in Girvan, South Ayrshire.

Largs beach is a large shingle based beach located on the northern edge of the town of Largs.

Ardeer Quarry Local Nature Reserve contains a mix of wetland, woodland, scrub, and grassland habitats.

The stunning Eas Mor Waterfall can be reached by a tough but worthwhile forest walk

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