It is 8 miles North of Kinlochewe but most easily accessible from Poolewe, taking a private road South East (pedestrian & bicycle access only) to Kernsary.
Gruinard Bay is a large remote coastal embayment, located 12 miles north of Poolewe, in northwestern Ross and Cromarty, and is in the former parish of Lochbroom, in the west coast of Scotland.
Ross-shire dialect English is spoken in Red Point (nearby Gairloch) and Poolewe.
Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie (1842–1922) was a Scottish landowner and the creator of a famous garden at Inverewe, near Poolewe in Wester Ross.