Paps of Jura and Craighouse from the Islay ferry

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Picture of two high mountains with a coastal village belowA view from the Islay ferry on the way to Port Askaig, looking over to the Isle of Jura. Two of the Paps of Jura (Beinn an Oir (785m, left) and Beinn Shiantaidh (757m, right)) towering over Craighouse, the main settlement on Jura.

 

Deer on Beinn Shiantaidh, Isle of Jura

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Picture of a deer on a hillside with heather and boulders

A slightly unexpected view on the descent from the summit of Beinn Shiantaidh, as I hadn’t known they go up that high. One of the many thousand deer on Jura on the hillside just below the pure scree higher up.

Beinn Bheigier and the Paps of Jura

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Picture of a wild landscape with hills and mountainsA view south west from somewhere in the hills near Lagg on Islay’s neighbour Jura. On the right the Paps of Jura, on the left in the far distance Beinn Bheigier on Islay.