Loch Craignish is tremendously attractive in a low-key sort of a way.No mountains or beaches, just small hills, islands and water. There must be many more than just the 'official' anchorages in the Clyde Cruising Club sailing directions to explore with walks ashore, all within easy walking distance of the pub, café, marina and shop at Ardfern — ideal for family cruising. As Cowper put it: "The loch is worth exploring for all the strange nooks it possesses, and the very beautiful scenery" (Sailing Tours: The Yachtsman's Guide to the Cruising Waters of the English and Adjacent Coasts, Part V, The West Coasts of Scotland, the Orkneys, and the west coast of the North Sea. Frank Cowper, Upcott Gill, London, 1896). For detail about the whole area take a look at the Craignish website. If the scenery looks a bit familiar to film buffs, then they are right, the boat chase in 'From Russia with Love' was filmed here (as a substitute for Turkey where the weather was too unseasonably poor for filming!). James Bond (aka Sean Connery) was lucky not to be in the film crew's helicopter which just after take-off crashed into the sea off Crinan, fortunately the occupants survived.