Jura’s Beinn a’ Chaolais with Islay in the background

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Picture of the summit of a mountain with steep slopes and scree
Jura’s Beinn a’ Chaolais with Islay in the background

A view from Beinn an Oir on a sunny but hazy June day. The summit of Beinn a’ Chaolais, the lowest of the three Paps Of Jura. Behind it the Sound of Islay with Islay itself stretching out into the distance, the Oa towards the left.

Two Swans on the shore of the Sound of Islay

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Picture of two Swans on a pebble beach shore
Two Swans on the shore of the Sound of Islay

Spotted during an Islay walking week walk quite a few moons ago, two Mute Swans doing Swan things on a stony pebbly beach shore at the Sound of Islay.

Hazy Sound of Islay view. And a gull.

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Picture of a view down a sound between two islands, a lighthouse in the distance. A gull flying overhead
Hazy Sound of Islay view. And a gull.

A view up the Sound of Islay from the Islay ferry on the way to Port Askaig on a hazy June evening. Rhuvaal lighthouse in the distance on the left. Colonsay in the far distance. Also a random (and annoyingly slightly out of focus) gull over the Sound.