Tiree holiday?

What time of year are you thinking of going? Wind speeds in the summer of course tend to be lower though every time I’ve been in June I’ve still managed to get out kitesurfing a few days (which is above 15 knots or thereabouts).

Also, only croft camping near the beaches, the only campsite is inland. Personally I’d rather rent somewhere on the island which is by a beach. There’s a superb house to rent in Vaul as an example.

Happy to provide more information as been going for well over a decade now so know the island well. Oh and it never gets that warm even in the height of summer. Pleasant but not red hot.

Your wife is always right.  She just has not yet explained to you that your need an exfoliating sand blast with your wine!

Tiree is an amazing place for a holiday, and people do camp on Tiree successfully, but your concern is perfectly valid.  People do also sip wine on the beaches but it’s far more likely to see them doing it fully clothed with a beanie on than in a bikini if that’s the vision she has.  There’s one official camp site which is about as far from a beach as you can get on the island (so not far but not a short stroll). Owners are great but it’s at the basic end of the facility scale - if you’ve never been to Tiree before you are in for a culture shock just being on the island, so that might be too much!  I would stay there is I was going to the island and needed cheap accom BUT in Tiree terms it will be busy - what a lot of people like about Tiree is you’ll be the only person sipping wine on the whole beach; obviously you won’t be the only person on the campsite..

<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">if you are talking summer holiday (and you need to be mad to camp on Tiree outside then!) you will probably find ferries already booked for Sat to Sat if bringing a vehicle so worth considering a less predictable pattern.</span>

I'm hoping to get to both Coll and Tiree, probably in May. I'll just be taking the Fatbike though..I was planning a mix of campsite and beach pitches. Access to fresh water seems like a potential problem.

A mate and I were the first folk to windsurf on Tiree, back in the early 80's. We raved about it so much the Scottish Funboard Cup was moved there from Macrihanish that summer and the rest is history .. 🙂

I drive around the west side of Mull on most days, and get a great view across to Coll and Tiree and the weather over there arrives here about 15 minutes later. On a day like today, there’s barely a puff of wind but I won’t see many bikini-clad folk at Calgary Bay. Quite regularly, it’s horizontal rain and when I’ve stopped in my van to open a gate, the wind can catche the door and I’m physically ejected from the van 🤣

I’m hoping to get to both Coll and Tiree, probably in May. I’ll just be taking the Fatbike though.

Could be the basis for a STW meet-up? Got this down on my to-do list this summer…

Could be the basis for a STW meet-up? Got this down on my to-do list this summer…

No fat bike, but mrs_oab and i want to go...

We've been going regularly for a very long time, so much so that my parents now have a house there and we go once or twice a year for a family holiday (next up the TMF..)  We camped on the island once in October.  It was, er, character building...  We've been in the summer when it's been calm and still and relatively warm.  And then we were there last summer when the rest of the country was in a heatwave.  We sat in mist for 2 weeks, freezing cold!  Pack a jumper.  Or two.

@The-Beard I was there at the same time, it was bloody cold every day. I took my parents there for the week telling them how great the weather was and it was dreich every day.

I go in October too generally around the Wave Classic week, not for windsurfing but for kitesurfing. Last year the end of week festivities in the Scarinish got a bit heated, a couple of the locals almost came to blows which was exciting.