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Hello and thank you for downloading the Scotland Outdoors Podcast. I'm Mark Stephen.

This week we're going to take you back a few years to a trip that myself and you and McElwraith

and our then producer Chris Slight took to the island of Kana.

It's a fascinating wee place, but to be honest, it was not without incident.

The island of Kana.

It is the most westerly of the small aisles off the west coast of Scotland. It's a beautiful place, most unusual.

It's got a fantastic harbour, which is probably what appeals most to my colleague, you and Murglewreath.

Yeah, I've come here a few times, mainly in the summer, beautiful, one of the best anchorages on the west coast,

but we're here to discover the magic Ok it, and it's drizzling rain,

but it's a beautiful place. And the amazing rock formations, which don't usually do it for me,

but that one behind you, it's kind of like Fingles Cave falling down the hill. Yeah, it's the whole

thing, this entire island is volcanic. Those are basaltic columns up there. Thank you. It's,

there's evidence of volcanic activity all over this place.

We've got Stuart Connor here, who's a property manager for the National Trust for Scotland.

Tell me a bit more about Kana.

I mean, some of the history of it.

Yeah, you're talking there about the island here, but there's also evidence of human habitation here.

Goes back 9,000 years, back to the Mesolithic period, you know, and there's been evidence of human habitation here goes back 9,000 years back to the Mesolithic period

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