
A view from the Singing Sands on the Oa in November 2025, Carraig Fhada lighthouse pn the left, Port Ellen with the pier and grain silo across the water.

A view from the Singing Sands on the Oa in November 2025, Carraig Fhada lighthouse pn the left, Port Ellen with the pier and grain silo across the water.

A calm June early morning in Port Ellen. Having dropped off my sister at the ferry to the mainland and watched her cruising away I briefly stopped at Port Ellen Marina. The water was beautifully calm, hardly a ripple in sight.

A June early morning on the south coast of Islay, having dropped off my sister at the morning ferry to the mainland I stopped on Port Ellen pier to look over the marina and Loch Leodamais.