Where? Cuil Bay, Duror

Take your kids on a Scottish safari to Cuil Bay to live-out their own wild-life documentary and become mini-Attenboroughs. Load them up with guides, binoculars and a magnifying glass and get stuck in! There’s oyster catcher, ringed plover, eider duck, gannet gulls and auks on sea and shore and pipits and larks in the fields. Watch for otters, sea and golden eagles. Explore ponds and burns for dragon flies and damsels and identify (but never pick) the wild flowers. Small and secluded but big in status, this beach on the Ardsheal Peninsula is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

GETTING HERE: The A828 links the A85 at Connel with the A82 at Ballachulish. The beach is signposted from the centre of the village, taking the single track road by the Duror Primary School. There is parking around the bay; the road is a dead end but...