The north half of the Sound of Islay is blessed with...
...some amazing rock architecture on the Jura shore. We were treated to more dykes, arches,...
....caves and stacks.
We were enjoying the view so much that we kept close inshore out of the main south going flow.
The Islay shore was also not without its delights. This is the
Bunnahabhain distillery.
Meanwhile back on the Jura shore the succession of caves and...
dykes continued.
Then gradually the Sound narrowed and as we approached...
...the lighthouse at Carragh an t-Sruith the full force of the ebb tide caught us and we sped south at 13km/hr.
The next Islay delight was the
Caol Ila distillery very rapidly followed by...
...
Port Askaig, where the ferries from Kintyre, Jura, Colonsay and Oban call. This evening it was only the Eilean Dhiura, the Jura ferry, that was in port.
As we reflected on what we had seen in our rapid transit of the northern Sound of Islay, we agreed that it truly was a Sound of Superlatives. As we would now be crossing from Jura to Islay I was particularly glad I had brought some Caol Ila 18y old malt for later that night. Jura malt on Jura then Islay malt on Islay, what could be better?
