visitor activities. Boat fishing and marine wildlife trips can be arranged at the harbour, and there are many hill lochs in the area with trout fishing available. Trips are also available with a working creel boat based in Badachro. Amenities and tourism Shops are to be found in Strath, Achtercairn and in Pier Road at the harbour. Also in the harbour area, near the golf course is a branch of the Bank of Scotland which has limited opening hours. A mobile Royal Bank of Scotland also visits the area weekly. Post Offices are located in local convenience stores at the harbour and in Achtercairn. Public services such as police station, leisure centre, schools, library and health centre, as well as a small supermarket and a home and garden centre, are in the central Achtercairn area. A small water sport centre, Gairloch Kayak Centre, is based at Shieldaig Lodge Hotel. There is a tourist information service, a 24-hour filling station, and a dual electric vehicle charging point at the Gairloch Community Hall. Two campsites take tents, caravans and motorhomes – one in Strath, Gairloch Holiday Park, and one to the west of Gairloch on Little Sand Farm, Sands Caravan & Camping. Carn Dearg youth hostel, situated on the headland shortly before Sand, has views across the bay towards Skye. A Pictish stone, with a distinctive carving of a salmon, was found in Gairloch in 1880. This is one of the westernmost sites where such a discovery has been made. The stone is now on display in the Gairloch Heritage Museum. From 2013 to 2017 raised funds for a major project to relocate to a new home in the former cold war Anti-Aircraft Operations Room building in Achtercairn. The museum reopened in the new building in July 2019 with expanded exhibits as well as a gallery and shop featuring work by local artists. The site of a 1945 plane crash at the Fairy Lochs near Gairloch is now a designated war grave. The hilltop crash site, south of the road to Badachro, has been preserved as a memorial to the USAAF servicemen who lost their lives in the accident. There is a single, daily (except Sundays), public bus service to and from Inverness, plus once-a-week services to Ullapool and Dingwall. Education Early, primary, secondary and further education are provided at the education campus in the central Achtercairn area. Gairloch Primary School provides