Haggis and Chips

Tue 1st May
Once more a stunning day weather wise to wake up to. I know people will think I'm making it up, here we are in the Outer Hebrides sun shining, not a cloud in sight and we hear on the news that the south of England is having floods.
Whilst lying in bed this morning I heard a strange bird call, I think it was a Corncrake.
Once again we had breakfast outside and once again found it hard to get up and move. So we spent the morning siting in the sun, looking out across the islands, reading and practicing the banjo. I even had a compliment from someone else on the campsite who said how nice it was to hear the banjo. Must be as tone deaf as me!
In the afternoon we went for a low, low level fell walk. It was a fantastic little walk up Beinn Eolaigearraidh and surprise, surprise we dropped down to a long sandy beach. Bonnie as usual loved playing on the beach and even managed a swim today.
On return to the van we realised we just had time to catch the early ferry from Barra to Eriskay. We had been booked on the next one at 6:00pm but found there was room for us on the earlier one. I think we both really enjoyed the north end of Barra.
Once on South Uist we spotted a fish and chip shop and decided that we deserved fish and chips following our epic climb up Beinn Eolaigearraidh. Tina had the said fish and chips and I had haggis and chips. We then headed for our campsite on South Uist for the night only to find it was a bit of hard standing on the side of a road and looked nothing like the photo on the web site. Oh well a couple of course ways later and we are back at the campsite we used Sunday night on North Uist. We don't mind simple sites, the one last night was basic with no electric hook up for the van, but at least that one was advertised as basic.

Phil and Tina