Weather/Conditions: Nice day, calm, a little sun, some high cloud.
Distance/Ascent/Time: 2.2km / 100m / 2h 20m
Accompanying: Dad

Dunagoil is a great little top that I first visited in 2011 as part of my (slightly ridiculous) Bute 30m Tops trip. That trip was a great way to find all the corners of Bute, and Dunagoil was a surprise find. It is 35m high, sits right beside the sea and doesn't identify as a hill in character in any way. Nonetheless, it was on the 2011 list and I made sure to return the following summer.

This entire corner of Bute has got some character. It's a quirky place with all it's hollows, knolls and inlets - you can see the volcanic basalt overlying the Old Red Sandstone by the water beneath the Dun. I've also looked at the cliffs of Dunagoil and thought there's a route or two in there, perhaps coming out of the caves. The rock is a little bit brittle and breakable, and in many respects it reminds me of Dunglas or Dumbarton.

This southern corner of Bute I grew very fond of. It's where the peace and remoteness is to be found. Surprisingly the north of the island didn't do that for me so much. I often think of Bute as one of the few Lowland Scottish islands, but this corner, like the solitude it retains has kept it's Gaelic names, if only on the map.

I don't recall exact times we did this walk, nor did I record them. Dad and I headed out for a short morning, and the nature of this was more in it's exploration and clambering around than as any real hill walk.