brian

saturday 18th february - bright blue skies, little wind and a new set of brake and gear cables and colnago bar tape. heading out of bowmore on the way to bridgend (about three miles), and passing the columba centre on the left (ionad chaluim chille ile). all the following photos were taken while cycling a colnago c40hp - sometimes it blurs, but what the heck:-)





lots of geese around the top of the loch at the moment and looking down the rhinns and loch indaal towards uiskentuie on the bruichladdich road



not a lot of trees on islay but a smallish wood on the entry to bridgend





through bridgend, over the river sorn and turn left towards bruichladdich and port charlotte, passing bridgend auction mart on the left past the entrance to islay house.





a few miles further on are crosshouses and then to glenburn and blackrock. first time since bowmore that the road has pointed upwards (slightly).







then down the other side to uiskentuie farm and uiskentuie strand. still heading towards bruichladdich.





looking back from uiskentuie farm, then forward down the strand.



pretty flat and sparse down the strand till we reach the approach to bruichladdich.



on the right hand side is bruichladdich distillery and on the left the tugs and platforms constructing the new bruichladdich pier extension. as luck would have it, just as i clicked the shutter to take a picture of the pier, they detonated an underwater explosion and here it is in pixels. couldn't have done this if i'd tried because i had no idea it was going to happen:-)





next stop is port charlotte about three miles further on.



and just to round things off at this end, self portrait with bike.



however, i snapped the following pic of islay house on the way back. this is all quite literally 'point and shoot'.