Evening arrival in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a small port in the fading evening light seen from an arriving ferryA view from the ferry pulling into Port Ellen on a misty evening on Islay.

 

Rhuvaal lighthouse and passing Calmac ferry, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a lighthouse and a passing ferry at the entrance to a sound, seen from a mountain topA view across the Sound of Islay from Beinn an Oir, the highest of the Paps of Jura. Rhuvaal lighthouse on the other side of the sound, a Calmac ferry passing on her way south.

 

Bunnahabhain and Rhuvaal Lighthouse, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a view from a ferry to an Islay, a lighthouse on the right, a village with a distillery on the leftA view from the ferry returning to Islay from Colonsay, looking into the Sound of Islay. On the right Rhuvaal lighthouse, on the left in the haze you can make out Bunnahabhain with the distillery on the shore.