Hebrides Sea Safari review: exploring Scotland’s wild west

No passport needed for this island-hopping expedition to Jura and beyond – just a steady pair of sea legs

The campsite on Jura
Perched on a rocky headland, the sea safari tents offer spectacular views across the Sound of Jura
(Image credit: Holden Frith)

Back in 2019, Scotland might have seemed like an odd destination for a newly launched safari. Now, after four years of flight cancellations, strikes and protests – when foreign travel wasn’t banned outright – this Hebridean island adventure is bang on trend.

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Holden Frith is The Week’s digital director. He also makes regular appearances on “The Week Unwrapped”, speaking about subjects as diverse as vaccine development and bionic bomb-sniffing locusts. He joined The Week in 2013, spending five years editing the magazine’s website. Before that, he was deputy digital editor at The Sunday Times. He has also been TheTimes.co.uk’s technology editor and the launch editor of Wired magazine’s UK website. Holden has worked in journalism for nearly two decades, having started his professional career while completing an English literature degree at Cambridge University. He followed that with a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. A keen photographer, he also writes travel features whenever he gets the chance.