The first series of summer events at the newly opened £1.3million Atlantic Islands Centre on Luing has proved a hit.
The Living Well on Luing weekend brought visitors and islanders together for a series of talks and walks.
Centre development manager Laura McIntyre said the programme was only the start.
“The Living Well on Luing events at the Atlantic Islands Centre were a great success and showed that we can put on an attractive and varied programme of activities which islanders and visitors can learn from and enjoy,” she said.
“There are lots more to come this year and everyone is welcome to join in.”
A seafood cookery demonstration by the centre chef Vilas Roberts featured locally caught lobsters, prawns, scallops and crabs on Thursday night.
This was followed by a lively music and words session by Luing singers Kirsty MacLachlan and Fiona Cruickshanks, accordionist Rachel Cruickshanks and writer Norman Bissell.
On Friday, an illustrated talk titled The Rocks of Luing – A Tale of Two Oceans by Luing geologist Alastair Fleming outlined the movement of the Earth’s continents over millions of years and the way the island’s famous slate was formed.
After lunch, Mr Fleming led a guided walk along the Cullipool shore, pointing out basalt dykes that came from the Mull volcano and quarries where felsite and basalt intrusions could be seen in high slate cliffs.
Botanist and conservationist James Fenton from nearby Seil took a large group of islanders and visitors around Cullipool on Saturday to identify a huge variety of different types of sedges, rushes, grasses and wildflowers.
He also pointed out how species were changing over time and the need to manage some of the land to avoid bracken taking over.
Later that afternoon, Luing poet Norman Bissell explained the characteristics of short poems known as haiku using examples from Japan and Scotland, and led a walk through Cullipool village and along the shore a to write their own.