Bikes are carried at a cost of 2 pounds each way on all sailings. Winter timetables may have few sailings. Vehicle reservation required - telephone 08705 650000. The official Caledonian Macbrayne website lists all the current ferry timetables in detail. The name Tiree is familiar to many people as it is heard daily on the UK shipping forecast.
Information is provided by the island's weather station which gives exact meteorological reports.
Thanks to the Gulf Stream, its climate is quite mild. The island once had a population of almost 4500, but many crofters left during the Clearances or later. It is quite flat with lots of farming land and has much fertile sandy soil. Few trees grow here though, due to the wind. The underlying rock, Lewisian gneiss, is thought to be 2900 million years old - half as old as the Earth itself.