Outdoor Photography Island Journal Pt 5

The latest installment of the Island Journal has just been published in Outdoor Photography - February 2010, issue 123. Eilean Ban and Skye are covered in this episode.

A little island recap

I've been filling in some of the gaps on our journey. If you click on the label "little islands" you'll see some of the quasi-islands or as some would have it, rocks, that we've glimpsed, sailed by or stood on.

T's favourite island moments of 2009

1. Jura

We failed to climb a Pap and we failed to complete Evans walk, but we couldn't fail to fall in love with this incredible island. We saw our first adder, our first butterwort, and our second otter.

2. Muck

Free of light pollution, the sky was so dark and the stars so bright that they looked like diamonds. The bunkhouse was heated by a Rayburn stove, and we ate our own body weight in ginger biscuits.

3. Tiree

We walked to the supermarket across a bay so vast and empty that it felt as though we might fall into the sky. We stayed on a farm where we experienced new life emerging, right on our doorstep.