If you follow the road round past Uig Bay on the Isle of Lewis you eventually come to Mealista where there is a small beach with these beautiful rocks. The road does not go much further and the area is quiet even in the height of the tourist season.

You would hardly think that this is in Yorkshire but many of the villages along the coast have these distinctive red pantiles

Whitby on the Yorkshire coast at sunrise. I visited this pier for the first time the evening before and found it smothered with tourists. Decided to come back the following morning before they were all up. Glad I did!

Beautiful green waves like these can be seen all along the west coast of The Outer Hebrides

This delightful abandonded croft house is on the island of Eriskay to the south of the Uists in the Outer Hebrides. This is likely to be an example of one of the first ‘white houses’ built in the middle of the last century as a ‘modern’ upgrade to the traditional Blackhouse.

One of the many ‘designs of nature’ that can be found on almost every Hebridean beach. This one happens to be on Barra.

One of the many fine beaches on the Isle of Harris in The Outer Hebrides where the Atlantic waves come ashore

The island in the background is Scarp which lies off the west coast of Harris in The Outer Hebrides. Scarp had a small community until the island was finally abandoned in the 1970’s. This was the point of contact for the islanders to the other parts of the Hebrides. All goods for and from the islanders would arrive or depart from this little beach.

Berneray is a small island lying to the north of The Uists in the Outer Hebrides with superb beaches overlooking the Sound of Harris. Here are some of the dunes which lie alongside the beaches in a late afternoon in April.

Another view of Eilean Donan castle viewed from the shores of Loch Duich