Talk:Burnt Islands

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Does anyone know why the islands are so called? Is it because of the vitrified fort on Eilean Buidhe? Rojomoke 19:07, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have alwasy personally believed (perhaps I've read it somewhere) it is to do with lichen on the rocks. At low tide the islands appear entirely black around the waterline before giving way to yellow lichen, then natural rock then grass.

They really are bonnie islands.

Neil McDermott 20:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think it is because of the vitrified fort. --MacRusgail 11:10, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Passages through the Islands[edit]

There is an alternative passage through the Kyles of Bute, passing south of the Burnt Islands. It is marked by a series of buoys, the southern-most of which is the Wood Farm buoy, and is widely used by pleasure craft. It is not usually used by commercial craft, because although it is as deep (perhaps deeper) and rather wider than the passage through the narrows, it is longer and less easy to follow than the narrows passage. The passage is documented on all large-scale charts of the region. This passage gives access to the popular small-craft anchorages at Wreck Bay and the adjacent bay on the coast of Bute. I have modified the text to indicate this. --APRCooper (talk) 09:42, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]