South Uist is long – 20 miles or so from north to south – and narrow, but it has an east/west split with the east being mountainous and the west flat ‘machair’ (Pronounced macka). Here we stood on the divide, with a pleasant grassy slope leading up hill. The mountain edge was there, though because the hillside heather grew.
There was the road, heading south.
We walked to see a religious monument. South Uist is largely catholic and this bit of statuary – ‘Our Lady of the Isles’ – looked to be of that faith. The people we saw there were on a cycling trip.
The sheep looked in good order.
A view over the machair.
South Uist was certainly well watered.
A lady prospects – a lady who was rude when a van went up to the nearby military installation.
‘He’s gone to look at his big balls’, she said.
Time for us to move on!
