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Am Froach Eilean and McArthur’s Head lighthouse from Port Askaig, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a small island and a lighthouse on a coastal cliff, seen down a sound between two islands
Am Froach Eilean and McArthur’s Head lighthouse from Port Askaig, Isle of Islay

A view from Port Askaig down the Sound of Islay. Am Fraoch Eilean just off Jura on the left, McArthur’s Head lighthouse on Islay on the right.

Arran and Kintyre from the Sound of Islay

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Picture of various islands and mainland stretches seen from a sound between two islands
Arran and Kintyre from the Sound of Islay

A view from an Islay ferry in the Sound of Islay on an April afternoon. In the far distance the Isle of Arran, just in front the northern part of Kintyre. In the foreground the shore of Jura with some of the small islands off it including Am Fraoch Eilean and Brosdale Island.

Rocky Jura shore and Am Fraoch Eilean

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Picture of a ragged rocky shore, a small island with a castle ruin in the backgroundA view during a walking week excursion to Islay’s neighbour Jura: A rocky shore near Ardfin with Am Fraoch Eilean (and the ruin of Claig Castle) in the Sound of Islay. The hills in the south east of Islay in the background.