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Fingal’s Cave
Houses on St Kilda
tinny boat loudspeakers. We viewed the
extraordinary basalt columns and then
climbed to the top of the island where
puffins, unconcerned by the sudden
influx of humanity, busily made nests
around us and showed their best profiles
as we sat clicking our cameras.
We were immaculately hosted on the
Hebridean Princess by Captain Richard
Eaton and his crew, with Egon the
steward producing refreshment in
the most unlikely of places. After
five memorable days, as we made our
farewells and headed south from Oban,
the skies darkened, the wind increased
and for the next week the Western Isles
were lashed by one of the most severe
storms seen so far in 2018. All were
agreed the weather god is without doubt
an OW.
Stacs at Boreray
Andrew Large and Peter Stormonth Darling
Puffin on Staffa
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