
That’s my sister Imke arriving on Islay for her June 2025 visit. We were lucky and she was the first foot passenger to get off, so I could take this picture of her emerging from the MV Finlaggan.

That’s my sister Imke arriving on Islay for her June 2025 visit. We were lucky and she was the first foot passenger to get off, so I could take this picture of her emerging from the MV Finlaggan.

The Calmac ferry MV Finlaggan arriving in Port Askaig on a nice June afternoon at the Sound of Islay. Seen from about half way up Port Askaig Brae. The Islay RNLI lifeboat trying to hide behind the trees on the right. My sister Imke was on the ferry, standing behind the lifeboat at the port funnel

A view from a ferry in the Sound of Islay, looking over Port Askaig with the ferry pier and linkspan. The much smaller Jura ferry MV Eilean Dhiura moored at the smaller pier, the Islay RNLI lifeboat on the left