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Some swans at Laphroaig by the sea:
Laphroaig's stillroom, note the white bottle of salt (yes, sodium chloride):
The outside of the Old Kiln Shop:
The inside of the Old Kiln Shop, lots of good stuff to buy there:
Ardbeg by the sea:
Ardbeg's stillhouse (no salt that I could see LOL):
Ardbeg's spirit receiver/safe:
Ardbeg's spirit still's purifier:
Bruichladdich's mash tun:
Bruichladdich's Stillroom (still no salt):
Bruichladdich's warehouse, lots of malt maturing there!
Bruichladdich out front, having a laugh in the still period (no, the picture was not put in the scanner backward!):
Jim McEwan, Bruichladdich's master distillery manager:
The food at the Port Charlotte Hotel was absolutely wonderful. I must stay there one day:
I stayed at the Oystercatcher B&B and snapped these pictures of a real Oystercatcher and a Piping Plover at the beach at Port Ellen:
Waiting at home for me were two cases of Bunnahabhain 1997 9yo peated from a sherry butt: