Lorgill Bay

A track leads from the end of the motor road at Ramasaig to this deserted bay, savage and desolate in the winter, beautiful in the summer.

There was once a community here, but the village was cleared in 1830 and the villagers were forced to emigrate by the landowner.

Enigmatically near the beach are the rusting remains of an old metal ship's lifeboat. One can only wonder what a tale it might tell were it able to. If it did contain shipwrecked sailors, and made it to the beach after the village was cleared, the survivors would have had a long, weary tramp to Ramasaig.

The bay is a pleasant place to picnic and birdwatch on a nice day, but can be impossible to reach in bad weather when the streams are in spate.

The shattered ship's lifeboat
Lorgill Bay: Debris blown from the sea by the winter storms remains. There is no one to clear it away.

Lorgill Bay: Another view
Lorgill Bay: The cliffs

Skye summers can be like this. We fail to get to Lorgill Bay. A stream which crosses the track has become an impassable raging torrent
Keep your high-tech technical clothing. In a real Skye storm only a Barbour Jacket is fully waterproof.

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The shattered ship's lifeboat	Lorgill Bay: Debris blown from the sea by the winter storms remains. There is no one to clear it away.

Lorgill Bay: Another view	Lorgill Bay: The cliffs

Skye summers can be like this. We fail to get to Lorgill Bay. A stream which crosses the track has become an impassable raging torrent	Keep your high-tech technical clothing. In a real Skye storm only a Barbour Jacket is fully waterproof.