Thursday 21 June 2012 – South Harris

Went ashore with the bikes to look for the Weaving centre.  Good thing we took the bikes as it was not as close as it looked on the map and we started by going the wrong way.  Anyway we covered lots of narrow road through Cnoc and Lochan countryside – lots of little round rocky hills with little lochans in between, many of them having water lilies.  Anyway the Weaving Centre turned out to be nothing better than a shop selling expensive tweed and knitwear and was not as good as another shop which we passed on the way.  The nearest we got to weaving was to hear the clatter of a loom from a shed beside a house.

Getting back to Loch Scadabay, we found we could not launch the dinghy where we had landed, so had to fiddle about carrying everything to a different place.  By the time we got back to the boat is was a bit late to move on, so we are staying.  Forecast not great – going to cyclonic tomorrow – so we will see how it looks in the morning.  It’s our turn for a depression to come this way – most of the recent ones have passed further south, flooding Wales or going up the English Channel.

Water lilies in wee lochan

Cnoc and Lochan countryside

Oops. The water has gone down too far

Loch Scadabay

Loch Scadabay is a very sheltered place