Oban Cliff Mystery
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The Geology of Oban
I've always been an outdoors sort of person. I like getting out and about and exploring. Is your house full of interesting stones? Not as many as I would like, because my wife would have something to say about that. But I do have a shed that's full of stones. A man cave full of stones, yeah. When the painter Turner visited Oban in 1831 when he was 56, he filled a sketchbook, the stapha sketchbook, which you can see in the Tate,. And every drawing of Oban features the cliffs. They cast a real spell. You can see that his eye was drawn to something special here, something majestic, super detailed, enchant
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