The Garvellachs

The Garvellachs are a small group of three islands lying just to the west of the island of Scarba and the famous Gulf of Corryvreckan. Their name is derived from the Gaelic Garbh Eileachs - islands of the sea. They are host to a ruined monastary and one of the best remaining examples of a 'beehive cell'.

This is very definitely a fair-weather anchorage which we would normally visit in conjunction with a stop-over at the north of Jura in the sheltered Baigh Gleann nam Muc or at Kinuachdrach, below the farm house where George Orwell wrote 1984.

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