Sula Boat Trips

The rock rises straight from the sea a few miles offshore, and in summer its cliffs are white with the largest colony of northern gannets in the world, with thousands more birds wheeling in a cloud above.

The trip round the rock takes an hour and a half in a modern, comfortable boat that suits families. You pass close under the cliffs, where gannets crowd every ledge, and see the lighthouse and the ruined walls of the old fort on the rock's flank, while the crew tell its story.

There are longer trips too: a cruise of two and a half to three hours round the cliffs of the Isle of May, evening cruises past Craigleith, the Lamb and Fidra, and in November short trips to see the newborn grey seal pups on Craigleith. Sula also runs a ferry across the Forth to Anstruther.