Walkers on the beach at Ardnave, Isle of Islay

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Walkers on the beach at Ardnave, Isle of Islay An impression from an Islay walking week a few years back. We are walking on the beach at Ardnave were a lot of kelp had been washed up.

Loch Gruinart seals and Ardnave dunes, Isle of Islay

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Picture of seals on a sand bank in a sea loch flanked by dunesA view across Loch Gruinart from the Killinallan side. Seals are resting on the sandbanks visible at low tide, the dunes at Ardnave in the background.

Mala Bholsa and blown back waves, Isle of Islay

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Picture of waves being blown back by the wind, a hill in the backgroundA view from Ardnave over to Mala Bholsa (127m) in the north of Islay on a breezy November afternoon. The waves at the entrance to Loch Gruinart are being blown back by the wind, providing an interesting view.