Wildlife has the right of way on the Isle of Arran, off the western coast of Scotland. Set off on a kayaking excursion to spot seals or plant one of the world’s rarest trees in a woodland revival.

This is The Mull of Kintyre taken from the beach in front of The Kings Caves. The sun is low as it's about 4.30pm This is taken from the forestry walk with the Kilbrannan Sound in the background.

7 Take a picnic as an incentive if you do the two hour round trip to, say, the King’s Caves, which was supposedly the place where Robert the Bruce hid out before the Battle of Bannockburn.

Don MacNeish and Howard Wood have almost a century of recreational diving experience between them so when they saw the seabed off the Isle of Arran being destroyed they took action. The pair spent ...