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Showing posts with label Mull of Oa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mull of Oa. Show all posts
Friday, October 28, 2011

Sea kayaking round the Mull of Oa from Claggain Bay to Kintra.

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A two day, 43km, paddle from Claggain Bay to Kintra , round the Mull of Oa on Islay, the most southerly point in all of the Hebrides. ...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

End of the day at Traigh Mhor, Islay.

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 Beyond Soldier's Rock, the coastline of the Oa peninsula is riven by a series of basalt dykes in various states of erosion. Some like...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

S-oa-ldier's Rock.

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 Our voyage along the west coast of the Mull of Oa continued with undiminished interest. Just before we turned east along the north coast....
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Oa my! It's a tight squeeze getting out of Bun an Easan!

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From the beach at Lower Killeyan (where we had enjoyed first luncheon) we had paddled quite a long way along the Oa peninsula. It was now ...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Oa, what a place to see goats and sea eagles!

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 The west coast of the Mull of Oa on Islay is rockhopping heaven. We paddled through geos and... ...under waterfalls that... ......
Friday, October 21, 2011

There's a kind of hush, all over the Oa tonight.

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We set of from Lower Killeyan Bay and were soon weaving through a series of offshore stacks and... ...channels through the skerries. T...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Taking a break at Lower Killeayan on the Oa peninsula.

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The west coast of the Mull of Oa is characterised by many offshore skerries and stacks. The Mull forms the SE boundary of Loch Indaal. Des...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Round the Mull of Oa.

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We now approached the great rock blade of Sgeirean Buidhe , which lies in the centre of the SW coast of the Oa peninsula. On another...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Cormorants, goats and cliffs on the Oa.

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 We set off down the SE coast of the Mull of Oa, threading small stacks crowned by cormorants. The coast is composed of increasingly b...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Oa, if it wasn't for the midges!

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 The dawn came gently on Islay's Mull of Oa. Banks of mist hung over the windless sea  Although the mist slowly burned off with th...