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The Sgurr of Eigg

Wild freedom of sailing the seas makes me realise how important the ocean is to me for all inspiration in art, poetry and photography. Here the clouds curl over the top of Eigg’s famous rocky Sgurr, a dramatic stump of pitchstone, sheer on three sides rising 393 metres above sea level. It is the youngest volcanic rock in Scotland at 58 million years old. Shadows billow out across the velvet bracken and fern covered slopes. The seas a rushing, living entity caught in pastel

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