The north east coast of
Holy Island is an area of...
...stark beauty and a turbulent geological past. A bed of Old Red Sandstone is overlaid by more recent Tertiary volcanic rocks.
The cap of hard igneous rock protects the softer sandstones below. Even so, great lumps of sandstone fall off the cliffs. This landslip happened over the last winter.
It is hard to believe that this remote spot is just 50km from my house in Glasgow.
At the north end of the island we came across these Buddhist prayer poles and caught sight of...
...distant Goatfell. We were nearing the end of our journey.
