The Wonders of South Uist

September 20, 2007 on 7:44 pm | In Sea Kayaking |

I am sat logged into the wireless network in the Loch Boisdale Hotel with a pint of Skye Ale and waiting for my goose to arrive - fresh local goose - and salivating at the thought.

I am down here running a first aid course and brought the sea kayak on the roof of the car in the hope of getting out for a paddle but the weather has been unkind and blown hard.

However this has brought an unexpected pleasure, when I finish working at four I needed to do something outside and so on with the running shoes and out to explore. I am glad I was forced out as I usually look at the east coast for paddling, it is more interesting from a boat, so running on the machair on the west (the land between the sea and the moor) was breathtaking. The skies are so huge they are almost unreal.

They have the unreal quality of making the horizon seem to be below your feet.

So with the forecast for wind and rain I have been luck enough to steal the rarest of jewels from nature’s grasp of being suprising by beauty.

I ran too far and now my legs hurt

ps. The food was fantastic, the waitress not only helpful and efficent but beautiful to

Tim Pickering
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