
A view from the road between the Coastguard cottages and Kilchoman church, looking across the reed beds out over Machir Bay to the Atlantic.

A view from the road between the Coastguard cottages and Kilchoman church, looking across the reed beds out over Machir Bay to the Atlantic.

Another view from the departing plane taken by my late mother at the end of her last visit to Islay. The view goes along the Big Strand in Laggan Bay out towards the Oa penisula. The North Channel behind it, Ireland somewhere in the far distance under the clouds.

A hazy and overcast April afternoon on Islay, a view out to sea from the Singing Sands on the Oa. Kintyre not visible in the distance, as it’s hidden by the haze.