Day 13 – Sights in Tobermory

The Museum of Mull is on Main Street. This free museum is well worth a look – please make a donation – and includes some useful information on all the ancient sites on the island including crannogs, standing stones, and burial cairns. There are rather a lot of them and I’m surprised more isn’t made of them by the island’s tourist board. There’s also some interesting information on the galleon from The Spanish Armada that mysteriously blew up a few days after seeking shelter in Tobermory Bay. Lachlan Mor Maclean, chief of the Clan Maclean, offered aid to the Spanish captain in exchange for support against his rivals, the MacDonalds, but the hundred Spanish soldiers didn’t make much difference when the MacLeans attacked a local MacDonald castle.

The distillery in Tobermory offers interesting tours around their premises where the whisky producing process is explained and tasting samples are included at the end.

I also went to Craignure where the Oban ferry leaves from. There wasn’t a single cafe open though a few places did offer coffee to take away. I walked along the road towards Duarte Castle, the home of The Macleans, and took some pictures of the place in the grey landscape though there was plenty of definition in the sky.