Immerse yourself in Coll

The white-washed cottages of Arinagour greet you as you arrive. Walk on the secluded beaches, marvel at the wildlife and enjoy a dram or two in the friendly Coll Hotel. On the occasional wet day, Coll’s community centre (An Cridhe) offers a great space to relax, read or play sports.

Wild-life lovers will have a field day on Coll. The island’s beaches, meadows, moors and machair provide a home for a wealth of flora and fauna, and twitchers are in for a real treat. Much of western Coll is an RSPB reserve, and a vast variety of birds can be spotted. Coll hereby offers a much wider range of bird species than other Scottish islands due to the diversity of habitat in such a small place.

With no street lights and its geographic isolation, Coll is a great place for star gazing. The tiny Inner Hebridean island is the only one in Scotland that can boast the status of being a ‘Dark Skies Island’, and even more impressively is only one of two such designated islands in the world.