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Callanish

A journey to the edge of Lewis

carol27 C
carol27 Jul 4, 2017 23:02:58
Replying to moss

Callanish and all the other stuff was, of course, magnificent but what stays in my mind is the colour of the water. I see it still in my minds eye. A glorious sapphire blue. I like water, I'm a piscean, I've never seen such a beautiful colour of water, and, even better, so much of it, as on the isle of lewis & orkney. It's awash.

M moss
moss Jul 5, 2017 08:17:40
Replying to carol27

Sounds beautiful. There is a local folklore about the Blue Men of the Minches. Sea kelpies, their presence is between Lewis and the Shianti Islands I think. You have to offer them the next line of a verse if they start following your boat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_men_of_the_Minch

Good book by Nicholson on the Shiant islands, called 'Sea Room' though of course because these islands were bought by the English upper class in their day rather destructive of local life.

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