Toll Na Roin Swim - 20.07.2025

With the conditions much better this evening than this morning (when we opted for Garrabost instead) Kellie, Connor and myself agreed that it was suitable for an outing at Bayble. Connor took his drone (check out the amazing footage at the end of the video) while Kellie kayaked and I swam from the beach out around the pier and over to through the channel at Rubh' a'Chaise before I headed into the blow- hole named Toll Na Roin (Seals' Hole) although I didn't see any seals there or during this swim, I did see plenty of either Cormorants or Shags flying off the rocks and lot's of jellyfish out in this area. Kellie and I then went back a slightly different way, between Eilean na Mairbh (Island of the Dead) and Eilean a' Chaise (Cheese Island) which according to a local book is more likely to have originally been Eilean a' Chais (Sorrow Island).

Anyway, there's definitely a lot of interesting history here and it feels great to be swimming through it and also the wee island channels that the lower tides let us see and pass over even if I had to do a sideways scramble on one, haha.

A beautiful evening for a fantastic time for the three of us.

Click here to view the YouTube Video from the outing.