Outdoors

Orchard Gardens are beautiful gardens with herbaceous borders, formal pond and formal flowerbeds, which are always full of colour

Eglinton Country Park is a great day out for all of the family, with a range of activities set out over the huge 400 hectare ground.

This unusual geological feature is located near Kilchattan Bay on the south end of the Isle of Bute.

Blackwaterfoot beach is a stunning sandy beach in the tranquill village of Blackwaterfoot.

Largs beach is a large shingle based beach located on the northern edge of the town of Largs.

The stunning Eas Mor Waterfall can be reached by a tough but worthwhile forest walk

The Discovery Centre and Winter Garden is just a short walk from the ferry terminal and so makes a great starting place for visitors to Bute.

Dunure Beach is mostly shingle and popular for walking and boat trips. Dunure Harbour offers a great place to stop and enjoy quality dining by the sea.

Home to the vitrified fort of Dunagoil, the cliff and caves around Dunagoil provide a scenic background for imaginative adventurers.

Below the Loch Doon dam, the River Doon has carved a route through a beautiful wooded gorge.

Loch Fad is a freshwater loch on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, ideal for fishing Rainbow and Brown Trout.

The Brig o' Doon, sometimes called the Auld Brig or Old Bridge of Doon, is a late medieval bridge in Ayrshire

Boyd Orr Garden, situated near the top of the Main Street, in memory of celebrated Nutritionist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Lord Boyd Orr