South-Westerly view down the Argyll coast from the Oban to Craignure Ferry past the islands of Kerrera, Seil, Luing, Lunga,Scarba to the Paps of Jura.

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My birthday, midsummer, 25/07/2013.
I had visited Scotland with my son, then 19.
He had had a very challenging and difficult year.
A trip to the incredibly beautiful and natural West Coast of Scotland might allow him to re-boot and find himself.
It has certainly worked for many others, including myself.
It has now become an accepted fact that nature can do that.
Here we are on the ferry from Oban to Craignure on the Island of Mull.
Just before passing Duart Castle on the south-east corner of Mull, this view is the Hebridean Sea south-west down the Argyll seaboard.
The weather had been very kind.
Still warm and balmy the cloud had temporarily bubbled up to present a sky and sea of many hues of silver and grey.
The light here is so varied, penetrating and long-lasting in summer, that even the lack of stark, prime colours made for a mystical scene.
A pewter grey sea broken by the boat’s wake, endless skerries and islands, ends up a hundred tones, as the water reflects and refracts colours, hither and thither.
It is captivating, almost surreal.
Down the Firth of Lorn we see the Island of Kerrera, opposite Oban. Seil, with its bridge over the Atlantic.
Luing and Scarba are fading into the distance.
Masked by cloud the Paps of Jura make up the furthest horizon.
The Hebridean Sea is a tantalising and beautiful place.
It has an ambience and magic that is impossible to define
and impossible to forget.
Hey-ho – happy days!

   

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Dunollie (show map)

Taken on: July 25, 2013

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