Nearby, the Broch Towers of the cunning and skilful Pictish people still stand as sentinels by the Old Drove Road. Higher, where the sheep graze and the red deer run, are the Hill Forts of the Gaels, and adjacent to the old Glenelg village is the huge Hanoverian Barracks. Now a ruin, built to subdue the 18th century Jacobite Rebellions.

The area was home to Gavin Maxwell, who set, and wrote, his translucent masterpiece, "Ring of Bright Water", here at Camusfearna, better known as Sandaig. A wonderfully isolated archipelago of heather-clad islands, rock-pools and sandy beaches. Like all Glenelg's coastline, the delights here are without limit.