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Known in early times as Volas Bay - to roll, as a wave.
A busy shipping village and from here you have superb views to Skye and its majestic Cuillin Hills.
Situated at the end of Loch Alsh where the narrow strait of Kyle Akin separates the mainland from Kyleakin in Skye.
The road from Dornie to Kyle of Lochalsh offers fine views of the loch and Beinn na Cailleach that rises 2,396ft one of the Skye hills rising above the narrows of Kyle Rhea.
The Wester Ross rail ends here and is commonly reffered to as the Gateway to Skye. And is the terminal point of one branch of the ‘Road to the Isles'.
Beyond the Crowlins rise the lofty Applecross hills and to the west is the Isle of Raasay.
One of the finest sea lochs of the Wester Ross extending inland from the narrow strait of Kyle Akin which separates Skye from the mainland to the point where it meets Loch Duich and Loch Long at the Dornie bridge.
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- Landmark