British Geological Survey had this excellent ariel photo on their site.
This page points to a selection of photographs that I took when I visited
the island about ten years ago. Note that several of the photographs include
some very dark areas. To avoid loosing a lot of detail, you really need to
view them with 24-bit colour and on a good monitor. (There are very dramatic
differences between the pictures viewed on the various machines I have access
to. Even cheap Mac.s seem better than quite expensive PCs.)
The photographs are all 35mm, taken with a wide-angle (28mm) lens. The full-size
images are large, about 40-100kb each.
The rest of boat crew appear in several of the photos. This is largely a
good thing as otherwise it would be impossible to judge scale.
The island is not easy to get to. It is only possible to land in very small boats. (We were travelling in a 26-foot yacht and had to use our dingy to land.) It is also at least a 12km sea trip to get there. It is only safe to land in very calm conditions.
| The landing stage from the sea. This is on the south-east corner. The camera is facing approximately west. | |
The landing stage from the land as we secured the dingy. This is a very small boat, but we would not have anything much bigger. | |
| A shallow cave just NW of Fingal's from above. I think this is the left-most cave in the BGS photo below. | |
From headland NW of Caves looking towards the north of the island. | |
| Looking into Fingal's cave | |
Looking out of Fingal's cave from the back of it. | |
| The eastside of the island with Ulva in the background. | |
Not my photo. British Geological Survey had this excellent ariel photo on their site. |
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