Beach №01
Talisker Bay
Basalt, garnet sand
A wild west-facing bay walked from the distillery road. The sand is half black, half pale, and a sea stack named Stac an Fhuarain stands sentinel to the south.
Field notes
The shores we walk.
Skye is 50 miles long and almost entirely coastline. These are the beaches we return to most often — at low tide, in good wellies, with a small canvas bag for what the sea has left behind.
Beach №02
Elgol
Lewisian gneiss, Jurassic shale
Pebbles gathered with the Black Cuillin rising across Loch Scavaig. Look closely at the cliff and you may find a fossilised ammonite the size of a dinner plate.
Beach №03
An Corran (Staffin)
Mudstone, jasper, ironstone
At spring low tide, dinosaur trackways emerge — three-toed theropods and broad sauropod prints pressed into the lagoon mud of a Middle Jurassic estuary.