Two lighthouses at the Sound of Islay

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Picture of two lighthouse on both sides of a sound between two islandsA view from the track out to Inver on Jura, looking out over the Sound of Islay. On Jura the small light at Carragh an t-Sruith. Behind it the much larger lighthouse at Rhuvaal on the northern tip of Islay. Colonsay on the horizon.

Mull, Jura and Colonsay from the Sound of Islay

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Picture of a view up a sound towards a number of islandsA view from the ferry in the Sound of Islay looking north. In the foreground on the right is Jura with the lighthouse at Carragh an t-Sruith. In the middle distance Colonsay, behind it in the far distance Mull with the Munro Ben More towering over the view.

Jura and Mull from the Sound of Islay

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Picture of a small lighthouse on an island, another island with a mountain in the distance behindA view north from the ferry leaving Port Askaig on Islay. The lighthouse is at Carragh an t-Sruith on Jura with the Isle of Mull in the distance. The big mountain is Ben More on Mull, the only island Munro outside the Isle of Skye.

Admittedly this is not a view you’ll get with the bare eye, this was taken with my 80-400mm lens fully extended to 400mm.