In so many ways. Pat and Dave, close friends from the other side of the valley, have had friends staying and wherever they went this week they found the sun (and kept telling us!). So yesterday CJ was feeling good (by his standards) so we decided to go over to the West side of the Island to Uig and Reef and Valtos for their fabulous views, machair and beaches and see if the promised sun would make an appearance. We had to do a bit of chasing but we did manage some sun.
Uig is not the place to try and get a cup of morning coffee however we remembered that last year we had had an excellent coffee from the machine in the café facility at the Uig Community Cooperative Shop which is an example of the considerable achievements of a small remote population and provides a range of retail facilities including a post office and petrol station as well as a community meeting hall.
The view from the front of the coop says a lot
Then we went to the tiny township of Cliff:
Then we walked on Reef sands
Where holiday makers at the camping ground there were fishing off the rocks
Someone or two in the township of Carishader has a sense of humour:
As we came up to the old schoolhouse in Loch Croistean which is now a very friendly café we came across a pair of eagles soaring high above the valley:
All in all it was a Very Good Day.
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