AJ's Snaptorium

By AJTaylor

bagh a chnoic Mhaoileanaich

is the snappy name for the beautiful tidal inlet that seperates the island of Erraid from Mull.
The Isle of Erraid (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Earraid) is a tidal island approximately one mile square in area located in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It lies west of Mull (to which it is linked by a beach at low tide) and southeast of Iona. The island receives about 100 centimetres (39.4 in) of rain (I reckon we got the annual total that day) and 1,350 hours of sunshine annually, making it one of the driest and sunniest places on the western seaboard of Scotland.
Erraid is one of the locations featured in the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. David Balfour, the hero of this tale was marooned for a while on the island having been shipwrecked on the Torran Rocks, which lie to the south.
we climbed to the summit of Cnoc Mhor where a large erratic sits and could see the next rainfront sweeping inover the from the south west then decended to the disused signal station for the lighthouses on Dubh Artach and Skerryvore that were built by RLS's father Thomas.

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