Scotland Holiday Day 6 – 11th July 2012 : Lunga and Staffa
On the Wednesday we had arranged a boat trip to Lunga and Staffa with Staffa Tours. The island of Lunga is the largest of the Treshnish Islands and is a famous seabird colony with a large Puffinry. Our boat set off from Tobermory and crossed the Sound of Mull to Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan peninsula on mainland Scotland. We picked up a few more passengers and then set out for Lunga all the time looking for sea mammals and birds both on the water and on the island cliffs we passed by. A lot of the passengers on the boat were also bird enthusiasts so there were lots of eyes peeled looking for eagles. As we passed Cruachan Treshnish, the 216 m high mountain at the very edge of the western coast of Mull just past Calgary Bay, we could see two small dark shapes perched on top of the mountain and these were clearly too big to be anything other than eagles and they were, in fact, Golden Eagles, a pair of which are known to have lived in the area for a long time.
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