
A view from the Islay ferry on the way to Port Ellen on a summer evening. Port Ellen distillery and the modern maltings behind some low coastal rocks and cliffs.

A view from the Islay ferry on the way to Port Ellen on a summer evening. Port Ellen distillery and the modern maltings behind some low coastal rocks and cliffs.

A panoramic view looking north up the Sound of Islay from below McArthur’s Head lighthouse at the southern end of the sound. Jura visible on the other side of the sound with one of the Paps of Jura (I think Beinn a’Chaolais) in the distance.

A sheep on a plateau on the hills just north of Lossit Bay on the Rhinns of Islay. Behind it the Atlantic, thousands of miles of water, next stop due west Canada.