Hellooooooooo!

So, after a remarkably smooth journey – here we are cosily installed at The Moorings, North Uist once again! From Google maps being completely accurate as to the timings of my initial drive from home to Doncaster on Thursday (Just under 3 hours, in case you were wondering) to the fact that the much-talked-about (mainly by MrEH) roadworks on the A74(M) came to absolutely nothing – not so much as a lurking traffic cone – we were taken by surprise just how “to plan” the trip up went. We were at Mallaig on Friday in time for the ferry before the one we were actually booked on, and the nice CalMac chaps happily changed our booking so we trundled cheerfully off the boat in Skye just before 1pm after a gorgeous crossing – look….

As we had 4 hours to kill before needing to be at the Port at Uig ready for our second ferry, we decided to drive out of a road we’d not been on before, around the west side of the Island, and we rewarded with some fabulous views…

We got to Uig in plenty of time – plenty of time in fact to visit the Brewery to buy beer, and to have tea and cake in a new (to us, anyway) café before wandering back across to the car to wait for the ferry. By ten minutes before departure time, there was no sign of her and everyone was getting a bit twitchy….eventually 25 minutes later we saw this welcome sight…

Phew!  Another lovely ferry crossing followed – not quite as warm as last year (shorts and t-shirts weather you might remember) but wonderfully sunny nonetheless, and with the added bonus of seeing some marine wildlife…

…A Dolphin we think, although there were also what we believe to be Pilot whales about – amazing to see them, and quite close to the boat several times, too! 

Robyn