Boat Trips In Oban
From the House
Loch Etive Cruise to see the seals.- 01866 822410
12.00 for 1.5 hour cruise up Loch Etive to see the seals and eagles. Adults £5, children £3, family £13. Or a 3 hour trip at 2 pm. Take warm, waterproof clothing even when the weather looks nice, and binoculars. There is an inside part with a bar for refreshments and snacks, and an outside top deck. Generally the boat trips run from just after Easter until the end of October. During May they only run the afternoon trip.
From our house, walk out of the gate, turn right down the track and right again when you meet the tarmac road. Continue to the end which leads to the far tarmac pier.
Organised Trips from Oban – 2006 prices from websites
- The Mull Experience - tickets from Caledonian MacBrayne office in Oban - 01631 562244
Includes return ferry, Torosay castle, Duart Castle, the Mull Railway & coach travel in between. Leave Oban at 9.50 or 12.00 (not on Sat), adult £17.50, Child £8.50 - Or just the ferry, Mull narrow gauge railway and Torosay Castle for adult £8.70, child £4.50. It is not clear yet whether these combined deals are available again, and this is 2005 prices.
- Mull, Iona, Staffa Tours 0800 783 8470 or 01631 562 842
- Mull & Iona bus/boat tour on ever decreasing boat sizes, leaving 9.50 on the boat daily from Oban, return 19.45. Adult £42, children £21. Or early bird options, leaving Oban at 7.45, or Treshnish isles – ornithologists paradise, leaving 10 from Oban. Adult £44, child £20. (May till July)
- Turusmara Tours 08000 858 786
- The Treshnish isles offer birdwatching for the beginner during the spring. From April to July there are hundreds of Puffins here, that are very photogenic from very close up. Amazing to just sit and be surrounded by puffins, little clowns, our kids favourite birds.
- Treshnish Isles and Staffa. Oban 9.50 Tues& Thurs. Adult £46, child £22.50 family £120
- Staffa & Ulva. Oban 9.50 daily. Adult £40, child £20 family £105
- Treshnish Isles and Staffa. Oban 9.50 Tues& Thurs. Adult £45, child £22.50 family £120
- Bowmans Tours 01631 563 221
- Mull, Iona, Staffa. Oban 9.50 daily. Adult £34 child £18
- Early bird Mull, Iona Staffa. Oban 07.45 daily. Adult £29, child £16
- Mull Circular. Oban 9.50. Adult £20, child £12
- Sealife Surveys 01688 302 916 - prior bookings only
- Whale, dolphin, shark, seal, puffin watching. All from Tobermory, Mull. Maximum 12 on the boat.
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