Month: June 2024

Down a rutted, single-track road with three blind spots where —if you’re lucky — you either slide through without meeting another car or — if you’re not — one of you backs up to a passing place, keep going until that road ends at the tiny beach at Dalbeg (Dail Beag).

If reaching the Outer Hebrides is the long awaited and crowning achievement of this trip, then the Isle of Lewis is the big shiny jewel in that particular crown. It’s going to take a few posts to explain why, and most of that will be photos, I’m sure. So let’s get started exploring the big island.

There are remote places and then there are really remote places. I found one of the latter on the tiny island of Great Bernera, all 21 square kilometers of it. And it was a three-day slice of heaven, despite the weather.

One doesn’t just drive to Harris from Berneray. Rather, one gets up early, drives the winding roads of North Uist, crosses the causeway into Berneray and then turns right to line up for the small ferry that is the link between the two islands.

What, a whole post about one beach? Keep reading and you’ll see why…