The Camel Diaries: The Uists

Our Outer Hebridian adventure began on the island of North Uist, where our ferry came in from Skye. I was particularly excited as I have wanted to visit these islands for many years and had never had the opportunity before. As many of you, I have a passion for stone circles and the Hebrides is a Neolithic paradise - they believe there are many sites still waiting to be discovered under the peat bogs and sand dunes. Anyway, for the first few days we based ourselves in Lochmaddy on North Uist and explored the southern islands of the Outer Hebrides. We visited (from south to north) Eriskay, South Uist, Benbecula, North Uist and Berneray. here are some of the many highlights:

SOUTH UIST

Poll a Charra Standing Stone. In the distance you can see the Sound of Barra.

Our Lady of the Isles - She stands 9m tall!

The view from Our Lady of the Isles Statue

Beinn A'Charra

BENBECULA

Teampall Mhuire - medieval chapel and burial ground.

While looking around Teampall Mhuire, we came across the graves of three Australian airmen from WW2. Benbecula has been an airforce base for many years and is still operational today. My homework is to find out a bit more about how these 3 ended up here.

The slow life....

NORTH UIST

What a view!!

A traditional house

Peat bogs

Barpa Langais Chambered Cairn

Pobull Fhinn Stone Circle - conveniently located a few hundred metres from Langais Lodge Hotel where we came across the scallop and black pudding dish as seen in previous blog entry.