Beach and dunes on the way to Ardnave Point, Isle of Islay

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Beach and dunes on the way to Ardnave Point, Isle of Islay

A view on the way from Ardnave along Loch Gruinart to Ardnave Point in the north west of Islay. Colonsay visible in the distance.

Pedants’ Corner on Kilchoman beach, Isle of Islay

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Picture of writing in the sand on a beach, correcting a mistake in an earlier writing
Pedants’ Corner on Kilchoman beach, Isle of Islay

The wreck in the middle of Kilchoman beach, below the high water line, is believed to be the Patti, an early steamship with a square boiler wrecked in the 1840s. The remains of the Mary Ann are at the very top of the beach in the north.

Burn flowing between rocks in south Machir Bay, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a stream flowing between rocks at a beach
Burn flowing between rocks in south Machir Bay, Isle of Islay

Discovering the southern end of Kilchoman beach in Machir Bay on a beautiful sunny June day on Islay. At low tide I like walking between the rocks, an ever changing environment. Here a burn flows down from the hills, between the rocks and over the beach into the Atlantic.