Recently returned from a winter trip to Islay. Saligo Bay –horses on the dunes, sheep in the turnips, beautiful waves lined up regimentally and driving onto the shore over rocky finger fragments pointing to sea. Machir Bay – light shafts from dark boiling clouds signalling a change in the weather. The slack water creating dazzling reflections of bubbling clouds and remnant blue skies , wide beach with delicate sinuous patterns from the wave reach.
The late afternoon sun is revealed through purple clouds in great shafts of light across the estuary. On the way back the big skies of Islay are opened to us across the low lands around Loch Gorm.
