The bay itself does not have much to offer other than remoteness and a rather broken-down cottage. But the walk north to Kilmory Lodge is terrific, high up above the Sound of Luing (Scarba Sound on older maps), almost as though you are in an aeroplane, with views across to Mull, Easdale, Luing, Loch Melfort, Shuna, Crinan and Kintyre. A truly spectacular walk. You pick up a Land Rover track just above the cottage and head north up the hill to the right.
Everyone who has sailed through the Sound of Luing must have noticed Kilmory Lodge, so conspicuous up on the hill, the only inhabitable house on the island. Close up it is bigger than it appears from the sea, with extensive steadings, and it seems very well maintained and appointed. Presumably the owner, I think Shane Cadzow whose family invented the Luing breed of cattle, comes here from time to time, maybe to shoot things. And it is available for holiday rentals, fully staffed too. And definitely not cheap. I have never seen a soul moving on Scarba on the many occasions I have sailed by. It is essentially uninhabited.
There is a ruined 14th century chapel and burial ground somewhere down by the shore below Kilmory Lodge that I have not seen — I suspect it is difficult to find.
