Stac an Armain (Etching)

Here be dragons! My view of the impressive dragon's tooth sea stack that rises straight out of the sea. Stac an Armin, to give it the correct Gaelic spelling, is the tallest sea stack in the UK and is the first island you meet as you sail across to St Kilda from the Outer Hebrides. The white streaks are guano, on the dark, sheer rock. From a distance the sea stacks look more white, but most of the thousands of gannets and fulmars lift off as you approach. These are the cliffs the St Kildans used to row across to and climb to get to the sea birds they lived on. Even on a calm day, the swell at the bottom of these dramatic cliffs is significant. I show this as white tops to the waves at the base. We arrived near sunset, so the westering sun cast long shadows from the near 200m cliffs. Stac Lee is visible in the distance, looking like a very solid muffin. Boreray is half-hidden behind Stac an Armain. The dimensions are the actual image size.