MS Ocean Endeavour in Loch Indaal, Isle of Islay, with the Paps of Jura behind

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Picture of a cruise liner in a sea loch, three mountains in the backgroundThe MS Ocean Endeavour anchored in Loch Indaal with the Paps of Jura providing the background. Islay House also in view just to the right of the cruise ship.

MS Ocean Endeavour near the Mull of Oa, Isle of Islay

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Picture of the cruise liner MS Ocean Endeavour passing a headland with a monumentAfter her visit to Loch Indaal the cruise liner MS Ocean Endeavour is leaving Islay, here passing the Mull of Oa with the American Monument. Seen from the Rhinns of Islay, somewhere south of Port Charlotte.

MS Ocean Endeavour in Loch Indaal, Isle of Islay

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Picture of the MV Ocean Endeavour cruise liner seen through some rocksAn unusual visitor to Loch Indaal, a cruise liner. Most of them moor at Port Ellen when they visit Islay, but the Ocean Endeavour stopped in Loch Indaal, causing a lot of attention and excitement. The tenders were ferrying passengers to and from Bowmore all day, from where they visited Bowmore distillery, Islay House Square and Finlaggan among various places.

Photographed from somewhere near Port Charlotte (can’t remember where exactly I managed to find this angle wedging the cruise liner between the rocks), some houses in Bowmore just visible in the background.