Enjoy the Cabin; for your stay you may not need to leave the harbour, many guests don’t.  Sit on the terrace and explore the beach, make sandcastles, paddle in the rockpools, explore the shoreline and sea caves…

Enjoy the Harbour

Enjoy the Cabin; for your stay you may not need to leave the harbour, many guests don’t.  Sit on the terrace and explore the beach, make sandcastles, paddle in the rockpools, explore the shoreline and sea caves.  Observe the resident birds and wildlife.  Fish off the piers and in good weather swim in the harbour.  Speak with the boats’ skippers, who are happy to sell excellent freshly caught lobster and crab.

Draw and Paint

Take inspiration from The Glasgow Boys and other artists who frequented the area and the harbour in the past and substituted sunflowers with cabbages!  Appreciate the Cabin’s collection of drawings, paintings and other artistic fittings.  Appreciate the clouds, rocks, boats and people enjoying the beach and capture the spirit of the place.

Read and Write

The Cabin’s library relates to the harbour and the area, feeding the imagination.  You are surrounded by Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Bride of Lammermoor’ country.  Read about the building of the harbour.  Light the stove and snuggle down with a good book.

Explore the rich cultural heritage of the area

Search the deep deans and bridges of the Dunglass, Tower and Pease Denes, Tower Dean and discover why the area was the most treacherous section of the ancient post road between London and Edinburgh.  Explore the cliff-top coastal paths, interlaced with hidden artworks commemorating the 1881 fishing disaster.

See the ‘origins of time’; visit Siccar Point, where James Hutton’s examination of the rocks first revealed the ‘depth of time’ leading to Darwin’s theories of evolution and the modern scientific method.  Observe the junction of Old Red and Carboniferous sandstones within the harbour and look for the fossil evidence which shows how Scotland was connected to Greenland.