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My principal aim on going to Jura was to see and photograph the pier at Lagg, across from Kiells, Knapdale. This was part of a drovers...

Aside from coastal 'microclimates', Jura looks like this: Dominating the skyline are the "Paps of Jura". "Paps"...

We stayed at the Jura Hotel in Craighouse, right beside the Jura Scotch Distillery. The latter produces "Superstition" Single Ma...

I really enjoyed our stay on this island. It has a very small human population (apparently some 200 people), and a very large deer populati...

There is a small ferry that travels across the Islay Sound to Feolin on Jura. The Feolin Centre is a nascent information centre for Jura. I...

Kildalton Cross is the only complete, unbroken, early Christian wheel cross to survive in Scotland. It was carved in the late 700s. The Cro...

And here is another Standing Stone, north of Loch Finlaggan, beside the road to the Finlaggan Visitor Centre, in a field. Apparently, it w...

Finlaggan, an inland freshwater lake, was the administrative centre of the MacDonald Lords of the Isles. As can be seen by the air photo on...

We travelled on yet another ferry from Kennicraig on West Loch, across the Sound of Jura to Port Ellen, Islay. At this time, there was a m...

As we followed the road north into the heart of Knapdale, we arrived at Kilberry Castle. It was here that the historian, archaeologist and ...

Along the north side of West Loch Tarbert, there is Stornoway Bay (Canadians will be familiar with "Stornoway" as it is the name o...

Campbeltown was once a bustling port, home to many very wealthy traders as well as landowners. Its buildings are even now, impressive in a...

There is a one-lane road (paved!) down the east side of Kintyre. Only 13 km north of Campbeltown, we came to an evocative and moving ruin:...

Skipness Castle overlooks Kilbrannan Sound. During the wretched 17th century Wars, most of the Highland castles were destroyed, dismantle...

Well within sight of Arran is the Kintyre Peninsula. The trusty ferry wafted Mary, me and our behemoth of a Volvo across Kilbrannon Sound...

If it had been up to me, I would have taken to my bed while in Arran, because I had picked up a dreadful cold whilst in Glasgow. My siste...

Arran sits between mainland Scotland and the Kintyre peninsula. We landed at Brodick, on Brodick Bay, which delights in the remains of a...

As will become obvious, the west highlands is a land of waterways. We left Glasgow, were lost only once (in Greenock), drove south to Ardro...

My sister Mary arrived from Canada, and we spent a lot of time in Glasgow mapping out how to get out of Glasgow (she did the driving, than...

The "Great Disruption" was another Scottish religious upheaval. It culminated half a century of evangelistic fervor and missio...