We’ve made our usual trip up to Lewis and Harris over the
past couple of days – early ferry on Tuesday, and early ferries (this one is
7.15am, leaves from the Island north of here which takes around 40 minutes to
drive to, and you always like to get there a little while before the sailing
time “just in case”) are never good, but do have the advantage of meaning you
get to see lovely early-morning skies like this…
The ferry crossing is a lovely one too – I usually end of
asleep for part of it after the early-rising but this time was so bright and
with such lovely light falling across the water and the hills I stayed awake
throughout! Once off the ferry at the other side we headed straight up through
Harris and on to Lewis. First stop was our campsite for the night to get the
tent set up – once that’s done our time is our own and we wasted no time in
getting sorted out and heading off again – Stornoway first to get supplies for
lunch, and then a gentle drive around that area – to a few places we both like.
After lunch we decided to drive North – to Ness and the Butt of Lewis. Ness is
an odd area – very remote indeed and almost not feeling like part of the same
Island as Stornoway in many ways. It
does have the Eoropie Tea Room though (the owner of which makes exceedingly
good cakes!) and also this stunning harbour right next to a little sandy bay…
The cliffs behind the harbour are home to nesting Fulmars –
odd looking birds these, members of the Albatross family in fact, and quite
happy to fly around having their photos taken – so we experimented for a while
with our new camera lens…
No visit to Ness is complete without a trip up to the
lighthouse at the Butt – dramatic seas even on a relatively calm day, as soon
as you step out of the car you can hear the waves crashing…
Then back south again – with one brief stop – I just love
this little Post-Office with it’s door and shutter painted phone-box red – it
looks lovely open, but closed the colours make so much more of an impact, and
with that sky…
Final port of call for the day – after we’d eaten a rather
excellent Chinese takeaway for dinner – was Shawbost beach for a spectacular
sunset. Hebridean sunsets are some of the best – and this one wasn’t bad at
all…
More to come from this trip – and the sun kept shining for
us!
Robyn
3 comments:
I have enjoyed reading about your visit and your photos. There are just so many beautiful views there to capture but you have some stunning photographs of your visit.
Absolutely breathtaking!
Thank you both! There will be more photos appearing on my website at some stage - need to go through them all yet though and, ummm...there appear to be quite a lot!
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