Carradale

Overview

Carradale is a working fishing village, situated a dozen or so miles north of Campbeltown on the eastern coast of the Kintyre peninsula.

The village itself is unremarkable, but the tiny, very pretty harbour with its small fishing fleet, and the wide, sandy beach to the south, make up for it.

On the east side of the beach is Carradale Point, where the Scottish Wildlife Trust has a nature reserve with feral goats, and a good example of a vitrified fort built more than 2000 years ago on a small tidal island off the headland (which is best approached from the beach).

There are several pleasant walks with good views across to Arran laid out in the woods around Carradale, for which the best starting point is the car park at Port na Storm on the road into the village. The village also boasts a 9-hole golf course and salmon and sea trout can be fished on the Carradale River during the summer months.