A lifetime of Islands

Holm of Grimbister is linked to Orkney Mainland a mile to the east of Finstown by a 200 metre long seaweed covered causeway, which I suspec...

I wasn't sure whether Holm of Houton would be accessible on foot at low tide.  I arrived a couple of hours before a low spring tide and...

Outer Holm is an uninhabited tidal island, which lies to the south of Inner Holm.  It is joined to Inner Holm at low tide by a stony causewa...

At last, my 2015 island collecting season has begun.   Inner Holm is a small tidal island located on the eastern side of Hamnavoe, as the...

Is it an island or just a rock? This is a game that all island collectors must play from time to time and a question to which there is n...

Eilean Traighe is a very small tidal island located on the south side of Loch Etive, which is a sea loch, about halfway between Connel and ...

Eriska is located 12 miles north of the town of Oban and 3 miles north of the village of Benderloch on the west coast of Argyll and Bute an...

Eileanan nan Gad is a tidal island located in Kentra Bay, which is located at the north east end of the Ardnamurchan Peninsula.  The island...

Eilean Mor is a tidal island located at Glenmore a couple of miles west of Glenborrodale on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula.  The hardest thing a...

This is another island that I cannot pronounce!  Rubha Da Chuain is a low lying rocky tidal island in 3 parts located 50 metres of the beac...