Win tickets to the islands

AFTER the success of Brilliant Island Moments last year, VisitScotland has teamed up with Caledonian MacBrayne and Serco NorthLink Ferries to encourage people to discover for the first time – or get re-acquainted with – Scotland’s islands.

The campaign, which is open to UK residents, offers 8,000 free passenger tickets for an offshore adventure. There will be a draw each week, up until 25 March, with 4,000 winners receiving two foot passenger tickets for their chosen route.

In 2014, a record-breaking 63,000 people from the UK entered the Brilliant Island Moments prize draw, nearly double the amount of entrants for 2013’s campaign.

Brodick on the Isle of Arran was the most popular destination with 9,470 requests. In second place was Shetland (8,989), followed by Lewis (7,048), Mull (6,710) and Orkney (6,204).

Mike Cantlay, chairman of VisitScotland said: ‘In Scotland, we are very lucky to have hundreds of islands, each with their own diverse landscape, rich wildlife, unique character, and delicious food and drink. From rugged mountainous geography to Caribbean-like white sand beaches, there are so many reasons to visit our islands.’

www.visitscotland.com/campaign/brilliant/brilliant-island-moments/

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Make a splash in Scotland

AN interactive website has been launched to showcase one of the UK's premier watersports destinations that benefits from the warmer waters created by the Gulf Stream.

Watersportscoast.com is a one-stop website with detailed information on 12 watersport activities – including yachting, dinghy sailing, kite surfing, and sea kayaking – around Ayrshire and Arran on Scotland's west coast.

From the coastal areas around mainland Ayrshire to the islands of Arran and Cumbrae, the area provides opportunities to access the waters of the Firth of Clyde and on to the Irish Sea. Located on the Gulf Stream, the waters are surprisingly warm (with some reporting them to be warmer than off the coast of South Africa) and palm trees flourish in some areas as a result.

Watersportscoast.com provides information on some 60 key coastal access points, beaches, slipways, marina facilities, and moorings. 

Tide times, weather forecasts, nautical charts, nautical mile plotting, and interactive mapping, are available -  [www.watersportscoast]  

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