- Heaval from the ferry.
On the walk there, we bumped into a guy who had just climbed it telling us ‘it’s a doddle’. Great! We thought. The top of it was covered in clag, but we hoped for the best.
- Looking up at the 'doddle'.
The whole way up was pretty boggy, but especially the foot of the hill. No midges were about luckily.
- Castlebay.
Soon after starting, we both realised it definitely was not going to be a doddle. We are not hill fit (or any fit for that matter!), so it proved to be a bit of a challenge.
About ¾ of the way up there is a statue, which i’m guessing is Mary and Jesus.
- Last steep climb to the top.
Unfortunately the clag never went anywhere, so the apparent great views of Barra vanished.
My aunt had bought me a Balmoral hat, and sent me it, wanting me to get pictures taken with it everywhere. And so the first one was taken...
- Timer.
And another one...
It was an amazing start to the holiday, which turned out to be one i will never, ever forget.
There was never one when I was there! Here's my pics of it - doubt I'll be putting out a post on it now... In the sense that you walk all the Hebridean hills from sea-level, I don't suppose any of them can be classed as a doddle particularly...
Never mind, it was a lot of fun. I fell in love with Barra, so it will be done again.
