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Our last island in our recent trip was Lismore.
We headed to the ferry carpark at Port Appin at eight in the morning to find it was full of islanders cars, you can see the car park in the first photo. So we had to drive back into the village and park about 600 yards away. This seems to be an issue with these ferry carparks. Due to the local geology with a steep hill near the coast there was no way they could increase the size of the car park The crossing took about ten minutes and was ran by Argyle and Bute council. You can also get a longer crossing from Oban, this one takes cars and is run by CalMac.
To be honest the island did not have much to offer. There’s a road that runs for eight miles along the ten mile Long Island we walked along about half way to a nice cafe, then on the way back we walked of the road to Port Ramsay. We also visited the small museum next to the cafe. Note the manikin with his head turned round fully.
We headed to the ferry carpark at Port Appin at eight in the morning to find it was full of islanders cars, you can see the car park in the first photo. So we had to drive back into the village and park about 600 yards away. This seems to be an issue with these ferry carparks. Due to the local geology with a steep hill near the coast there was no way they could increase the size of the car park The crossing took about ten minutes and was ran by Argyle and Bute council. You can also get a longer crossing from Oban, this one takes cars and is run by CalMac.
To be honest the island did not have much to offer. There’s a road that runs for eight miles along the ten mile Long Island we walked along about half way to a nice cafe, then on the way back we walked of the road to Port Ramsay. We also visited the small museum next to the cafe. Note the manikin with his head turned round fully.
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