Cliffs and Crofts

Sunday 6th May
Today's weather gave us showers, including wintery ones, and sunny spells. Lucky for use each time we wanted to leave the van it was sunny.
This morning we drove to Hushinish on the west coast of Harris. Hushinish is a crofting community and surprise, surprise, has a lovely sandy beach.
After lunch we drove to Lewis, I'm not sure why the south is called Harris and the north Lewis, it is one island. The north end of Lewis is flat and has built up communities, not like the main land but quite large compared to the rest of the Outer Hebrides.
Since it is Sunday there are no shops or petrol stations open and the hotel restaurants are only open to residents. The children's playground even had a sign on it saying "Please respect the sabbath".
We drove to the very north of the island, Butt of Lewis, and had a very nice walk high on the cliff tops. This is suppose to be the windiest spot in the UK but we had a little breeze blowing, that said the waves were still crashing against the cliffs.

Phil and Tina