Logan Fish Pond & Marine Life Centre

An historic and unique tidal pool, created in a natural geological feature, Logan Fish Pond is a fully restored Victorian Fish Larder in a unique setting.

The first time visitor to Logan Fish Pond is often amazed and surprised by what they see. Not until they enter through the original Fish Keepers Cottage and have their first glimpse of the pond below do they have any idea of what this unique and historic attraction holds.

In 1788 Andrew McDouall, Laird of Logan, decided to create a Fish Larder for storing live sea fish by adapting a natural rock formation on the shore. The work took 12 years, and was finished in 1800.

So Logan Fish Pond, as it became known, was 200 years old in the millennium year 2000.

Many of our visitors return year after year and indeed some have been doing so for fifty or sixty years, feeding the fish today as they remember doing so as children.

Recent additions to the original pond include Touch Pools, Cave Aquarium and Gift Shop.

On the rocks next to the Fish Pond is the Bathing Hut, now restored and open for viewing. Beyond the Bathing Hut is the Bathing Pool. In Victorian times this was a favourite place for family outings from Logan House.

Springtime around the Fish Pond sees carpets of daffodils, primroses and bluebells. Later it becomes a natural rock garden of sequill, thrift, sea campions and an abundance of other varieties of wild flowers throughout the summer. Worth a special mention are the bright pink flowers of the hottentot fig plant which cascades down the rocks towards the pond. It is mainly found growing around the Mediterranean and there are few places where it can be found growing this far north.

The rock here is called greywacke and was formed from layers of mud compressed to form a slate-like rock. Volcanic action in later times caused these layers to be pushed up vertically and rising sea levels during and after the ice age of two million to ten thousand years ago caused the gradual erosion of the rock to form the blow-hole which has become the fish pond.

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