Saligo Bay
Saturday, January 20 2007
The Sydney Opera House on Islay.
Saligo Bay is located on Islay's wild Atlantic west coast, only one mile from Loch Gorm and three miles north from Machir Bay. Machir Bay has a long sandy beach that goes on for more than a mile and is quite wide but Saligo Bay has a more wild beach with rocks and, so I have been told, the most beautiful light in Scotland. An excellent place for photographers, but not only that. Saligo Bay is also very remote, very quiet and an ideal place for watching a faboulous sunset, if weather permits.
The beach and bay can be accessed from the "circular" road around Loch Gorm where the Saligo River enters the Atlantic Ocean. For that you have to cross the dunes first with it's dozens of rabbits. As soon as you enter the beach you can see the very strange shaped rocks in the north that almost look like the Sydney Opera House. These rocks can be found between Rubha Lamanas and Dun Bheolain. So far I haven't been able to find an official name for them but for me the Sydney Opera House seems like the most appropriate name.
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I've been there a couple of years ago, the views are quite nice. Especially from the hills behind it, I've got a few nice panoramas from the area.
Thanks Armin, I checked the Landranger map and wasn't sure about the name. I myself have never been anywhere near that place, except for Saligo Bay of course :-) . In the meanwhile I did a little searching on your website and came up with the pictures you are talking about: