Flower Pot Island
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Flower Pot Island is a small island near Tobermory. It's most
interesting feature are it's two rock pillars known as the small and
big flower pots. There are two tour boat companies (Blue Herron and
Sea View) that offer cruises to the island. Both charge extra to get
off at the island, but both have "early bird specials" (leaving at
9:00) that don't charge extra for getting off at the island.
We arbitrarily took the Sea View early bird special, and feel it
was the right choice for two reasons. First, the early bird
trip has very few people on it, and second, the Sea View gets to
the island shortly before the Blue Herron, giving you more time
to look at the flower pots, etc., with fewer people around.
Oh, yeah, the boats are glass bottom boats, and they take you
to see two ship wrecks. However, the wrecks are close to the
surface and we could see them without looking through the glass
panels in the bottom of the boats.
On the island, there are three sights: the flower pots, the cave, and
the light house. In our opinion, the rock formations on the shore
are also a sight, and while it's well worth going to see the flower
pots and the shore, we didn't find the cave or the light house
of particular interest. If you like to hike, the loop taking you
to see all three is a reasonable short hike.
