Geograph Britain and IrelandLatest Images by John Wilson
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2024-03-19T04:38:43+00:00text/html2008-06-01T09:53:46+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.529533 -6.638245NG2258 : Clett - Eastern 'shore'
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/825479
On top of the cliffs at Clett are lots of cormorant and shag. Even if you didn't see the birds, you'd know they'd been there! The basalt/dolerite columns are also stained yellow and orange from the iron in the rocktext/html2008-06-01T09:48:47+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.527863 -6.637197NG2258 : Clett
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/825469
Clett is the smallest of the islands next to Isay in Loch Dunvegantext/html2008-06-01T09:44:09+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.525602 -6.647276NG2157 : Isay - geological dyke
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/825462
The basalt dyke runs along the shore of the east coast of Isay, but is clearly seen at the northern tip of the islandtext/html2008-06-01T09:39:21+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.518381 -6.645520NG2157 : Isay - the main village
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/825455
The island had a population of 90 in 1841, mostly subsisting by fishing and burning kelp. There are no streams on the island, let alone lochs. Water must have been a problem.
It was at one time owned by the singer Donovan.text/html2008-06-01T09:35:40+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.515399 -6.643468NG2256 : Isay - The Big House
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/825446
Site of a massacre in the mid 1500s, it was at one stage a 3 storey buildingtext/html2008-06-01T09:31:15+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.521020 -6.639837NG2257 : Mingay
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/825437
Mingay Island off Dunvegantext/html2008-05-27T20:52:38+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.482120 -6.304258NG4251 : Sunset Halo
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/819193
What else deserves a halo? 21h15. By July the sun will be setting to the right of the church at about 10h30, almost NNWtext/html2008-05-27T20:46:14+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.370994 -6.352970NG3839 : Glen Bracadale
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/819170
text/html2008-05-27T20:40:51+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.369055 -6.333597NG3939 : Ben and Loch Duagrich
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/819149
Just visible to the right of the small crag in the right centre, next to the lake shore is a hut circle. Visible because we'd had no rain for 5 weeks. The bealach at the other end of the loch was still very wet!text/html2007-08-15T21:01:33+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.402460 -6.175609NG4942 : Columnar basalt - Camas Ban
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/526646
Caused by slow cooling of the molten materialtext/html2007-08-15T20:58:18+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.407758 -6.159551NG5042 : Shag, Scorr Skerry
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/526637
text/html2007-08-15T20:53:28+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.404367 -6.183157NG4842 : Inveralivaig
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/526630
No road access, footpath or boat onlytext/html2007-08-15T20:44:49+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.404667 -6.157867NG5042 : Inside Scorr (Kale?) yard
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/526623
The walls are in remarkably good condition, over 4 feet high, with all doorways and gateways well defined. As usual, a sad reminder of the depopulation of Skye in the 19th and 20th centuriestext/html2007-08-15T20:41:37+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.405098 -6.158416NG5042 : Scorr and Scorr Skerries
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/526619
The abandoned village of Scorr overlooking the channel into Portree harbourtext/html2007-07-30T09:05:38+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/15380John Wilson57.491793 -6.257799NG4452 : The ford, Lòn Mòr
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/509747
What the image doesn't show you is that the patch on the other side is pure bog!