Tormore Granite Quarry, Ross of Mull

This has always fascinated me, long since abandoned. In its heyday stone was shipped across the world for monumental construction which includes the columns for the General Post Office in Glasgow, Dunrobin Castle, Skerryvore Lighthouse and several bridges in London. The views along the coastal path from Fionnphort are beautiful especially on a sunny day, across to Iona and the Treshnish Isles beyond. Staffa was very clear this afternoon and Fingals Cave easily visible with binoculars.
There was time left at the end of the afternoon for a walk to one of my favourite beaches on Mull, Knockvologan with its acres of white sand, properly white, not silvery gray, which allows access to the island of Erraid at low tide. As I arrived the tide was on the turn and it felt completely safe to have a solitary wild swim inbetween the pinky granite outcrops. The water was perfect, not uncomfortably cold. I have no idea who else might have been there, their issue not mine.
The extra blip is my swimming beach. The land in the near distance is Erraid.