It may be more comfortable than Port Ellen to anchor across in Kilnaughton Bay protected as it is from westerly winds.  It has been a bit spoiled by some modern cottages, but the beach is very pleasant to wander along, and the sand is just right for sandcastles.

The Carraig Fhada lighthouse was built in 1832 - square and stumpy, so very much not in the Stevenson style.

Up on the dunes there are a surprising number of atmospheric burial grounds. The roofless St Nechtan's chapel is late medieval and contains a number of mouldering graveslabs, including one with a rather fine knight in relief. The military graveyard just to the east of the chapel is remarkably well tended, as these places always are, but contains very few graves. One is of an "unnamed negro" which is a bit non-PC these days. It is perhaps surprising there are any war graves here, so far it seems from the action, let alone one of a 'negro'. But ships were wrecked and torpedoed round these parts and no doubt the crews were from all over the world.

If you walk on a little past the lighthouse you come to the so-called singing sands, said to be a delightful beach (Tràigh Bhan).