The annual ritual at Bruichladdich.
Author: Karolyn Wellings
Ardnahoe Distillery
Visited Islay’s ninth and newest distillery today for the first time. Nice stock in the shop and very decent tea and cake in the café. Also a great view from the balcony. Shame it was absolutely Baltic!
A beautiful day in Bridgend woods…
These photos were taken on Easter Monday – bit of a delay in uploading there! The weather over Easter weekend was stunning. There are so many bluebells and primroses on Islay this year…
Bracken shoots look really alien…
Duck Racing…
The Easter Bunny didn’t fall in… 😂
Beautiful carpet of bluebells in Bridgend woods at the moment.
Ribbons of Fire
Paps with Cloud Hats…
The Paps of Jura had little cloud caps on this morning – I’ve never seen cloud wrapped so snugly round the top of a mountain before! Unfortunately only had my phone with me to take a photo but hope this gives you an idea – it may look like snow but it is actually clouds…
Kilchoman Beach
Absolutely stunning day on Kilchoman Beach – so warm and still…
Found ‘Kate’s Rockpool’, named after my colleague Kate who went swimming in it this week, even though it must have been freezing…
…glad she also explained that the local farmers plough the beach to sharpen their ploughs, or I would have been flummoxed by this pattern in the sand:
Hope this superb weather holds for a few more days :0)
Rays shining on Bowmore…
This looked quite impressive this morning – unfortunately only had my phone with me to capture it!
Islay Ales…
…have some revamped beers out and very good they are too. Liking the new packaging as well.
Recommended 👍
Islay Archers
Hello everybody, apologies for another long delay in hearing from me… hopefully I am emerging from hibernation now and posting frequency will increase over the coming months as there are more interesting things to report!
The only activity which has seen me venturing into the chilly outdoors over the last few weeks has been the new archery club just established on Islay. I’ve never tried archery before and it’s been great fun having a go.
Pleased that I managed to get three arrows in a line and burst the balloon on the target…
…and thoroughly approve of the Bruichladdich tins as arrow repositories:
:0)
Greene Island 