Light reflections seen from the Islay ferry

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Picture of sunlight reflecting on the sea under a dark sky, seen from a ferryA view from an evening ferry crossing to Islay. Dark clouds hanging in the sky over the entrance to the Sound of Islay, but the Sun is breaking through the clouds above us, reflecting on the water and creating some brightness.

Steep cliffs along the Sound of Islay

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Picture of a view of steep cliffs along a sound, a lighthouse at the endA view from the Islay ferry travelling along the Sound of Islay. We are looking south towards McArthur’s Head lighthouse (on top of the cliffs at the end), some steep and high cliffs between the lighthouse and Gleann Choireadail.

On the approach to Proaig, Isle of Islay

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Picture of a coastal landscape with a bothy in the distance, a few walkers on their way to the bothyA view from a walk to Proaig and McArthur’s Head lighthouse during an Islay walking week a few years ago. This view is on the approach to Proaig, you can see the bothy in the centre of the picture. To the left of it some of the walkers can be seen approaching it. On the right the entrance to the Sound of Islay, in the distance the tops of the Paps of Jura.