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Looking from SS Sir Walter Scott (NN4907 : SS Sir Walter Scott at Loch Katrine) towards Ellen's Isle and the northern shore of Loch Katrine.

Loch Katrine is the lake in the title of Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake. It is a freshwater loch roughly 8 miles long by 2/3 of a mile wide, running the length of Strath Gartney. The loch is owned by Scottish Water and is the primary water reservoir for much of the city of Glasgow and the surrounding area.

Ellen's Isle is a small island at the eastern end of the loch. The original name of the islet was Eilean Molach, the "Shaggy Island". The name by which it is now best known, Ellen's Isle, may commemorate the dame, Helen Stewart, who slew the daring raider in Cromwell's time, but is, perhaps, more likely to be the result of Sir Walter Scott mistaking the word "Eilean" on the lips of his Highland boatman Link when he wrote "The Lady of the Lake".