Jura and Islay

After a stormy rainswept day Longbow anchored in calm dry conditions in the delightful anchorage of Tarbert on the west coust of Jura. Alan even captured blue sky and the sun as it disappeared below the Atlantic horizon.

(Below) The hills in the southern Hebrides are not particularly high only the occasional peak exceeding 3,000 ft but still retain the drama and beauty of their more lofty cousins particularly in the broken low cloud conditions such as these over the Paps of Jura seen here from Tarbert on the first night

(Below) Just a stony beach one might think - but these 'raised beaches' at Tarbert on Jura are good examples of ground rising when glacial ice disappears during global warming - in the natural cycle of events as one might put it!!

(Below) Two aspects of the waterfall at Tarbert - the first from a walking on water position the second somehow taken vertically above it - both positions having potential for getting a little damp.

(Right) Every self respecting Hebridean Island has its own distillery even if its pretty ugly as with the home of Islay Malt shown here.