Lord Dunderheid

Tiree is a smallish island to the west of Mull - almost stuck out in the middle of the Sea Of The Hebrides along with Coll. It is in fact the westernmost island of the Inner Hebrides - and it is, for example, further west than Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides (this mainly due, however, to the arc that the Outer Hebrides lies along). It is reached either by the CalMac car ferry from Oban or by plane from Oban airport (but also from Coll and Glasgow). As said, it is smallish - but not tiny. It is larger than, for example, the island of Danna - but much smaller than Islay, Jura, Mull, Skye and the major islands of the Outer Hebrides. It is shaped a bit like an arrow head (with a broken tip) pointing north east. That makes it a bit difficult to define it’s coast lines as there is only one full coast, the west coast, which aligns reasonably well with the cardinal compass points (Note that I am talking here about the general, or average, direction that any particular coast is facing, not jus...