Inhabited, west coast, Scottish islands - Gigha
Foreword. This is the first of what I hope will be many posts covering my visits to inhabited, west coast, Scottish islands. Gigha was the first, geographically speaking, that I wanted to cover (as I had decided to work through them from south to north and then from east to west). Having already visited many of those islands over my sixty nine years (as I write this during February 2021) I decided, upon retiring, to try and visit all of the ones not yet visited. This was, in effect, a bucket list. Gigha was also the first on this bucket list that I went to. For that reason I’ve included a lengthy background to my first trip and a description of my journey from my home (Greenock) to Gigha. I do this simply because it was the start of my bucket list trips. Future posts on this topic will be far briefer and describe only the island, or islands, visited - not how I got there. The idea will be to try and present my visits as if it was one continuous trip (or, at most, just two or three tri