This jetty can be used for the transportation of timber by sea, harvested from the forestry on the hills in Glen Etive. As can be seen from the two pictures, the current jetty is close to the location that the Victorian era jetty would have occupied.

It is perhaps worth noting that in the intervening approximately 130 years between the two pictures, nothing seem seems to have changed on the far shore of the loch.

A steamer, (see PiP) believed to be the "Osian" (1885 - 1913), moored at a pier on Loch Etive. Since 1877 a tour had run from Oban sailing the 17 miles up Loch Etive (via Connell where it opened to the sea), with coach connections to Tyndrum and Ballachulish Railway Stations. From a pier at the north end of Loch Etive tourists were able to link with a carriage service which took them up Glen Etive to see Glen Coe, a distance of some 17-18 miles.

For the Victorian photograph my thanks to Don001at:

the-lothians.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/late-victorian-edwardian-era-scottish.html