Tiree, links, activities

This is the key online guide to the island: www.isleoftiree.com

Tiree Music Festival

Tiree Wave Classic

Internet Guide to Tiree

Wild Diamond windsurfing and kitesurfing

Blackhouse Watersports

Tiree pictures

Cycling

Generally flat roads and firm machair meadows. Bike hire available from several locations.

cycle hire:
http://blackhouse-watersports.co.uk/
http://www.tireemillhouse.co.uk/
http://www.tireefitness.co.uk/

Fishing

Most of these fish became lobster creel baits. 

Trout fishing also available in two of the lochs.

Kitesurfing

Beaches suitable for kitesurfing facing in all directions, with or without waves.
Excellent tuition from Wild Diamond http://www.wilddiamond.co.uk/ Blackhouse Watersports:  http://blackhouse-watersports.co.uk/

Windsurfing

Tiree is well known as a mecca for serious wavesailing; what is less well known is that it has arguably the best beginners' conditions in Scotland with a very helpful teaching set up at Wild Diamond Windsurfing: Willy Angus MacLean 07712 159 205. Conditions for intermediates are brilliant with flat water blasting on the shallow loch or Gott Bay.

Wild Diamond

Golf

There is a very pretty nine hole golf course with epic seascapes in all directions to distract you from the misery of your latest slice.
Vaul Golf Club 220 729
Golf Club Hire from Tiree Lodge Hotel 220 368

Beach days

Surfing

Excellent local surf schools with ideal beginners' conditions through the summer and bigger waves more consistently during the rest of the year.
Lessons and board rental from Blackhouse Watersports  http://blackhouse-watersports.co.uk/  and Wild Diamond http://www.wilddiamond.co.uk/

Stand up paddle boarding

Ideal conditions for beginners, coastal cruising and SUP surfing.
Lessons and rental available from Wild Diamond and Blackhouse Watersports.

Windwinging

Has become very popular in the last few years; wingers often outnumbering kitesurfers and windsurfers.

Fitness

Plenty of old school ways to keep fit but if you want organised help check out:

Tiree Fitness

Other things to do

Sea kayaking - if you're already keen you'll have your own. Sit on kayaks available for rent from Blackhouse Watersports, Wild Diamond, and Suds Surf school.

Sailing, water skiing, wakeboarding: bring your own boat or charm someone who has a boat. Boat trips with Skipinnish.

Socialising: an extended party atmosphere develops from the moment you arrive at the ferry terminal; frequent ceilidhs during the summer.

Music - quite apart from the famous Tiree Music Festival there seems to be an endless production line of quality ceilidh bands produced by the local school.

Alternatively, enjoy the peace and quiet of the island.

Bird and animal watching; many seals, basking sharks, otters and occasionally whales - killer whales and minke.)

Visiting local artists' galleries.

Eating: fabulous local meat (lamb and beef) and fresh seafood: crab, lobster, fish. Restaurants: Ceabhar, Scarinish Hotel and Tiree Lodge Hotel. Cafes - several available (see www.isleoftiree.com) and Sunday afternoons at Hynish Centre.

Walking: no Munros but great walks along the coast: beaches and dramatic headlands, including some big cliffs. Big, dramatic skies often most spectacular when the weather is mixed.