Wave washing over the wreck on Kilchoman beach, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a wave washing over a wreck on a beach
Wave washing over the wreck on Kilchoman beach, Isle of Islay

With the tide coming in a wave is washing over the wreck of the Patti just sticking out of the sand of Kilchoman beach in Machir Bay on the west coast of Islay.

Down at the wreck on Kilchoman beach, Isle of Islay

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Picture of the top of a wreck mostly buried in the sand of a beach
Down at the wreck on Kilchoman beach, Isle of Islay

A closer look at the wreck of the Patti (wrecked in the 1840s) on Kilchoman beach on the west coast of Islay on a beautiful sunny June day.

Chapel with a chimney on Nave Island off the Isle of Islay

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Picture of an ancient chapel with a chimney added later
Chapel with a chimney on Nave Island off the Isle of Islay

One of the closest views you can get of the chapel with a chimney on Nave Island from Islay, taken with a strong telephoto lens from Ardnave Point. After the chapel was abandoned around 250 years ago kelp burners (to obtain soda ash) set up in the chapel, adding the chimney.