Isle Of MullActivities

Activities in Isle Of Mull

  1. Mull Wildlife Expeditions

    Mull Wildlife Expeditions offers full-day Land Rover tours of the island with the chance of spotting red deer, golden eagles, peregrine falcons, white-tailed sea eagles, hen harriers, otters and perhaps dolphins and porpoises. The cost (adult/child £43/40) includes pick-up from your accommodation or from any of the ferry terminals, a picnic lunch and use of binoculars. The timing of this tour makes it possible as a day-trip from Oban, with pick-up and drop-off at the Craignure ferry.

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  2. Bowman’s Tours

    The main operator on Mull, connecting the ferry ports and the island’s main villages. The routes useful for visitors are bus 495 from Craignure to Tobermory (£7 return, one hour, six daily Monday to Friday, four or five Saturday and Sunday) and bus 496 from Craignure to Fionnphort (£11 return, 1¼ hours, three or four daily Monday to Saturday, one Sunday).

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  3. Loch Frisa Sea Eagle Hide

    Loch Frisa Sea Eagle Hide runs escorted trips to a viewing hide on Loch Frisa where you can watch white-tailed sea eagles. Tours (£5/2 per adult/child) leave twice a day, Monday to Friday, from the Aros end of the Loch Frisa access trail (book in advance at the Craignure tourist office).

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  4. Turus Mara

    Turus Mara runs boat trips from Ulva Ferry in central Mull to Staffa and the Treshnish Isles (adult/child £50/25, 6½ hours), with an hour ashore on Staffa and two hours on Lunga, where you can see seals, puffins, kittiwakes, razorbills and many other species of seabird.

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  5. Gordon Grant Marine

    Runs boat trips from Fionnphort to Staffa (adult/child £20/10, 2½ hours, daily April to October), and to Staffa and the Treshnish Isles (£40/20, five hours, Sunday to Friday May to July).

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  6. Mull Magic

    Offers guided walking tours in the Mull countryside (£32.50 per person), as well as customised tours and four-day walking holidays.

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  7. Archibald Brown

    You can hire mountain bikes from Archibald Brown for £10/15 per five/24 hours.

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  8. Brown’s Hardware Shop

    Hire bikes for around £10 to £15 per day.

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    Bowman's Tours

    From April to October, Bowman's offers a Three Isles day trip (adult/child £49/24.50, 10 hours, daily) from Oban that visits Mull, Iona and Staffa; the crossing to Staffa is weather dependent.

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