Logan Fish Pond

Port Logan, Stranraer DG9 9NF

Tel: 01776 860300

website: www.loganfishpond.co.uk

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 in the form of a blow hole, formed during the last ice-age. The work took 12 years and was finished in 1800. Many 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.

In the springtime, the area around the Pond is a carpet of daffodils, primroses and bluebells and later in the year these are replaced with an abundance of wild flowers, including thrift and sea campion.

On the rocks next to the Fish Pond is a restored Victorian Bathing Hut which adjoins a Bathing Pool. Recent additions to the original pond include Touch Pools, Cave Aquarium and Gift Shop. Open 1st February to 30th September 10am to 5pm and 1st October to early November 10am to 4pm. Some disabled access.

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