Fingals Cave was discovered by Sir Joseph Banks and made famous by Mendelsson who wrote an overture in honour of it. It is an amazing sight.

Scots novelist Sir Walter Scott described Fingal's Cave as "…one of the most extraordinary places I ever beheld. It exceeded, in my mind, every description I had heard of it …composed entirely of basaltic pillars as high as the roof of a cathedral, and running deep into the rock, eternally swept by a deep and swelling sea, and paved, as it were, with ruddy marble, baffles all description."

We sailed almost into the mouth of this magnificent temple of basalt rocks. It was particularly interesting since we have also visited the other end of the rock formation in Irerland - the Giant's Causeway.