We headed away from delightful Daliburgh up the main road of South Uist. We passed the turn to Loch Eynort and then the one to Loch Skipport (in Gaelic on the map below as Sgioport). The map shows how close things are to Loch Skipport and its associated waterways and then Loch Bee actually cutting South Uist in to two parts. There’s about a tracks width of land at the northwestern end of that waterway to separate it from the sea.
And for us there was a causeway over Loch Bee.
Hey, isn’t that gorgeous.
Good grief, it looks like we had a real summer holiday. Away across Loch bee is the thin strip of machair and then that wild Atlantic Ocean.
It was largely blue sky and blue water.
Look at that. It was short sleeved shirt weather.
But clouds did hang over the hills, which might look mountainous but are much like my beloved chalk hills of the south of England in actual height.
‘I see no ships’. Well of course, you wouldn’t in that section of Loch Bee. The sea route would be through the causeway and then all the way down Loch Skipport to the opposite coast.
