Pucks Glen Lodges

Potter along Puck's Glen and the ravine trail first up, followed by a stroll around Benmore Botanic Garden and its avenue of giant redwoods. A short drive will take you to more walks around Loch Eck, to the forest and glen paths accessible from the car park off the A815 (about six miles from Dunoon on the way to Loch Eck), or to the hiking and mountain biking trails around Bishop's Glen and the Dunoon hills. For wildlife watching, see if you can spy red squirrels and red deer around the site, or trot along to Dunoon's Holy Loch Local Nature Reserve to immerse yourself in the bird hide at Broxwood: curlews, oystercatchers and wigeons are all spottable around the waters from here. Around the Cowal peninsula, look out for basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises just off shore, or birds of prey including ospreys and golden eagles in the skies overhead. A cinema, swimming pool, tennis courts and a museum are in Dunoon; for a city day, Inveraray is about 45 minutes away.