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HELENA EMMANS

HEIRLOOMS OF THE FUTURE

Grasses dance gently in the breeze, rippled sand stretches away towards a shoreline peppered with sun-bleached pebbles and the glassy waters seem to merge with the heavens. This is Ashaig beach on the Isle of Skye, a wild, raw place blessed with postcard-worthy views in all directions – towards Applecross on the mainland and, to the west, a broad vista of Skye with the red hill Beinn na Caillich on the horizon and the distant isles of Pabay, Scalpay and Raasay.

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