Ardelve Slipway (Dornie Pier)

The slipway served the ferry that crossed Loch Long between Ardelve and Dornie, and formerly ran on to Totaig across Loch Duich, before the loch was bridged. The first road bridge here opened in 1940 with an opening span; the present two-lane bridge, which now crosses directly overhead, opened in 1991.

The confluence lies within the Lochs Duich, Long and Alsh Special Area of Conservation, designated for reefs, and the overlapping Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area, which protects burrowed mud and flame shell beds. JNCC records the reefs around Kyle Rhea and Kyle Akin, downstream toward the open coast, as subject to some of the strongest tidal streams in the UK, and notes Loch Duich itself for well-developed communities of brachiopods and sea anemones on sheltered bedrock. Forests of seapens and the flamboyant white tentacles of fireworks anemones cover the deep burrowed-mud basins nearby, particularly within Loch Duich, and the MPA's flame shell bed, further west toward Kyle Akin and the Skye Bridge, is recorded as the largest known bed of its kind anywhere in the world.