Erraid is a tidal island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, lying west of Mull (to which it is linked by a beach at low tide) and south east of Iona. A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a causeway exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. ... The Inner Hebrides are a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe, occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain. ... Tobermory with 700 people, the largest settlement on Mull, is home to the only whisky distillery on the island. ... Beach A beach or strand is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, shingle, or cobble along the shoreline of a body of water. ... This article is about tides in the ocean. ... Iona, population 175, is a small island (1 mile wide, 3. ...

The island was the birthplace of writer Robert Louis Stevenson. His father ran a granite quarry on the island, while Robert wrote part of his novel Kidnapped there. Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a novelist, poet, and travel writer. ... Granite is a common and widely-occurring group of intrusive felsic igneous rocks that form at great depths and pressures under continents. ... A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. ...

It is home to a disused signal station for the lighthouse on Dhu Heartach. The Island is privately owned but they only use it in the summer. Members of the Findhorn Foundation rent out the island and people can visit for a small fee. The people on the island live in a peaceful community and everybody's support is needed for everybody to enjoy a happy stay. On the island the residents make their own candles to sell at Iona and on Mull.They farm the land and have milk and eggs and plenty of lovely vegetables. The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ... The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972 to act as a focal point for the work of the community that grew up around Eileen and Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean near Findhorn, Scotland, from 1962 onwards. ... Iona, population 175, is a small island (1 mile wide, 3. ... Tobermory with 700 people, the largest settlement on Mull, is home to the only whisky distillery on the island. ...

External Link

• erraid.com
• grid reference NM300200