Loch Coruisk

Loch Coruisk ( Scottish Gaelic Coire UISG ) is a freshwater lake in the Scottish Highlands. It is located in the southwest of the island of Skye Minginish foothills of the Black Cuillins in a completely uninhabited area. The lake is accessible by any road and is considered one of the most remote places in Britain.

Loch Coruisk has the typical elongated shape of a lake during the Ice Age glacial origin. It is approximately 2.4 kilometers long, but only about 400 meters wide. The lake is about 200 meters from hole Scavaig away, a sea loch, into which it drains via the Scavaig, with just a few hundred meters, one of the shortest rivers in Britain. In Loch Coruisk There are several small islands. The lake is surrounded by a completely treeless and rocky landscape and a popular destination for hikers. Most choose which is about 8 km long route from Sligachan, another, about 7 km long hiking trail leads from the small village of Elgol on the peninsula Strathaird along the sea shore at Loch Coruisk. On this route, however the bathroom step must be passed, a steeply sloping rock into the sea plate.

Moreover, one can reach the lake from Elgol also by boat. At the small Elgol Pier crossings to Loch Coruisk can be booked. The crossing takes about 30 minutes and is often used by the boat skippers to to take a trip to the seal banks in the bay in front of the hole. From the landing a 500 -meter-long trek on dirt paths leading directly to the hole, which is to rank among the 50 most photographed motifs in Britain.

Already in the 19th century Loch Coruisk goal was for poets and painters during the Romantic period. Among the visitors were, among others, Walter Scott, Sidney Richard Percy and William Turner. Alfred Tennyson, however Loch Coruisk got not to face due to fog.