If you enjoy relaxing walks, you will be delighted. Walkers can choose a variety of routes around the island on Bute's own 'West Island Way'. Walk the beach at Scalpsie Bay visit the view point above it and observe the seal colonies.

The 300 acres of designed landscape and 18th century woodland at Mount Stuart are especially delightful when the many and varied varieties of rhododendrons and azaleas fill the air with fragrance in the late spring.

Walk the Kingarth trail encompassing a standing stone, the Iron Age fort at Dunagoil and St Blane's Chapel, parts of which may date from 1300 years ago.