Igneous rock beside the Tinker's Well

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 25 Jun 2018

This part of the shore is near Image, which is not far ahead, although hidden from view by the intervening rocks. The rocks themselves are also of some interest. The 1880 book by David Macrae that is quoted in the end-note says of nearby McInroy's Point (Image) that "going down to examine it, you find it composed mainly of trap dykes, which have burst asunder the sandstone rock, and which rise at some parts like ramparts of adamant. The trap is of a bluish basaltic appearance, easily distinguishable from the surrounding and intervening rocks. Another of these remarkable dykes is seen a little further on, beside what is commonly known as 'The Tinker's Well'" (I have corrected the name: the book says "The Tinkler's Well"; click on the end-note title for several more views of the well itself). See Image for a view in the opposite direction from roughly the same place; in that picture, McInroy's Point can be seen 750 metres ahead, much altered since Macrae's day.

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