As of today one can explore Islay"s pot holes from your own computer.

Google Maps' Street View now (Thursday 11th March) includes Islay. Google Maps allows users to observe the country from a satellite view; Pot Hole View allows a user to descend from satellite to ground level to observe the locality in detail. By entering Bruichladdich in to the Google map search ...

...and dragging the little orange man to Bruichladdich, you can get Pot Hole level views of the roads, distillery and the coastline. Using the compass, one can rotate one's view and  increase the camera angle. Move the man further along the road by double clicking on the shadowed circle.  Unfortunately the little man does not have any tools with him to fill in holes.

The general satellite images of Islay are still terribly poor quality, rendering the zoom feature redundant. www.bing.com/maps has better coverage of Islay (but not Bruichladdich). One would have thought it was easier to implement decent satellite images from space before actually getting the detailed road coverage, but there you are.

There is a prize for the spotter of the biggest pothole.