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27/05/2026

Moine Mhòr Salt Marsh, Knapdale

I've gone for something a little more abstract than my usual shots. The Moine Mhòr Salt Marsh is an internationally important coastal wetland habitat in Argyll, Scotland, located at the heart of the Kilmartin Glen. It serves as a vital feeding area for migratory birds and rare species, bordered by the estuary of the River Add and the raised bog of the Moine Mhor.

17/05/2026

"One is never alone with a rubber duck"

I found this bathtub in a small walled enclosure - "field" would be too grand a word for it - on the Isle of Easdale. I don't know what it is doing there. Farmers sometimes use an old bath as a feeding trough but there are no farms and no livestock on the island.

So it's an old bath on a small, sparsely populated island. And it has a rubber duck floating in it.

13/05/2026

Wheelbarrows, Easdale

There are no vehicles and no roads on the tiny island of Easdale. Everything arrives on the ferry, and if it is too heavy or too bulky to carry, then residents transport it to their houses by wheelbarrow.

Here the wheelbarrows are lined up by the jetty waiting to be used.

11/05/2026

The Ferry Waiting Room, Easdale

This is the former waiting room for the ferry which runs between the Isle of Seil and Easdale, two of the Slate Islands.

07/05/2026

The Old Wooden Pier, Ellenabeich, Isle of Seil

The pier was built around 1870 to service Ellenabeich and Easdale Island, seen directly across from the pier in the photo. It served steamers carrying passengers and freight as far as Glasgow, until the 1940s. At one time, there was a wood and iron post crane on the pier head, though this was moved to the village square in 2002, when the deterioration of the pier threatened to topple it into the sea. The crane was used to lift slate quarried from Easdale on and off waiting ships.

The Pier has now deteriorated beyond repair and is on the Buildings at Risk Register.

04/05/2026

Dinosaur Footprints, Kildonan Beach on the Isle of Arran.

The footprints are around 240 million years old, from a time when when Scotland sat just north of the equator and the climate was tropical. They were left by an early crocodile called Chirotherium, which means "hand beast", because the fossils look like giant, human handprints. The prints, on a flat rock platform on Kildonan Beach on the Isle of Arran, are only accessible at low tide.

03/05/2026

Pladda and Ailsa Craig from the top of the Eas Mòr Gorge, on the Isle of Arran

Shot early in the morning of 25th April 2026, the view is so wide that it needed 16 individual shots stitched together to capture this pano.

01/05/2026

Easdale Harbour, Easdale, Argyll and Bute.

Easdale Harbour on a grey April day earlier this month. Easdale is one of the Slate Islands, and one of the smallest inhabited islands in the Inner Hebrides; it has a population of just 51 people. A small ferry carries both locals and tourists across the narrow channel from nearby Seil.

The derivation of the island's name is unclear - "eas" is Gaelic for waterfall, while "dal" is from the Norse for valley. But Easdale has neither.

28/04/2026

Ellenabeich Seafront, on the Isle of Seil, Argyll and Bute

Ellenabeich is a former slate mining village on the Isle of Seal. It is now a popular tourist destination, and was where parts of the movie "Ring of Bright Water" were filmed. This panorama was taken from the slipway where a small ferry carries passengers to the nearby island of Easdale.

The village sits beneath the impressive Dun Mor, which is Gaelic for "Big Hill"

26/04/2026

Machrie Moor 2, Arran

These are one of six prehistoric stone circles on Machrie Moor, on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Five of the circles were numbered 1-5 by the Irish geologist James Bryce in 1861, while a sixth, discovered submerged in peat in 1978, has been numbered 11. Five other prehistoric monuments in the area were numbered 6 to 10.

Machrie Moor 2 is the best known of the six circles, and the most visually striking. There were originally seven or eight stones, though only three survive today. The height of the stones range from 3.7 metres to 4.9 metres.

We arrived just before sunset, and although I took several shots, I love the light in this one.

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