This group of islands lies to the west of the Kintyre peninsula and south of the Isle of Mull. Islay and Jura are only just separated from each other by the narrow Sound of Islay. Its nine knot bore, one of the fastest in navigable waters in the UK, is caused by the same tidal flows as produce the legendary whirlpool of the Gulf of Corryvreckan which separates Jura from the Isle of Scarba in the north