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North Uist and Stone Cairns
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12 May 2022
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55.6 miles
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2h 45m
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20.1 mph
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46.4 mph
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- Description
- Another rainy day with 40 mph winds so we set off in the van to do a circumnavigation of North Uist with a gtrip up to Berneray in the north. The drive round North Uist is maybe 30 miles on very good single track roads with the usual (for the Hebrides) very well marked passing places every few hundred yards. Makes for a lovely, slow, unstressful drive. At the top of North Uist we took the causeway across to Berneray to give the hound his daily beack walk. Noth Uist is approximately 50% moorland and 50% water. Masses of inland lochs and also convoluted sea lochs. If the damn wind had dropped a little, there were some ideal spots to go kayaking. On the way back round, we stopped on a 5000 year old cairn. The tourist guide books talk about it being one of the earliest stone "buildings" in northwestern Europe. It then goes on to make comparisons to the Pyramids. I'll leave you to judge but "pile of stones" I say! Especially, as after 5000 years of just sitting there there had apparently been a dangerous collapse meaning we couldn't go into the burial chamber for a nose around. We did stop at a stone circle shortly after but they'd neglected to build it next to a parking spot and as it was pissing down (yet again) we headed back to the campsite. Still - top day out.
- Start
- 12 May 2022 at 11:31:36
- End
- 12 May 2022 at 17:13:29
- Participants
- Aidan and Liz
- Tags
- North Uist Scotland 2022