Island 255 - Slumbay Island, Lochcarron, Highland

Slumbay Island is located at the south end of the hamlet of Dalacladdich, which is half a mile south of the village of Lochcarron.  The only unlovely thing about it is its name.  It is 400 metres from east to west and 200 metres from north to south.  The highest point on the island is 32 metres above sea level.  It is joined to the mainland by a narrow neck of grass covered land. However there was seaweed strewn across the whole of it, so I concluded that it gets covered for a short while quite regularly by spring high tides.

I visited on a calm benign sunny September afternoon and had a lovely stroll along a path on the north coast of the island to the far end of it.  The island is uninhabited.  The higher parts are covered in trees - birch, rowan, sycamore, alder and hazel.  On the western side there is a small cliff.  The eastern end is lower and covered in grass, gorse, heather and bracken, interspersed with wildflowers like scabious, mint, sea mayweed and tormentil.

 Eastern end of Slumbay Island

 

Slumbay Island from Lochcarron

 Lochcarron from Slumbay Island

 Lochcarron from the eastern end of Slumbay Island

 Slumbay Island at low tide