Early on May 25 Hjalmar Bjorge weighed anchor and we left our calm anchorage off the island of Scarp. A course was set to the southeast, to...

On May 21st the ship Hjalmar Bjorge left Oban. Aboard were Joey, Patricia, Janet, John, Francis, Elaine, Clare, Nigel, and myself. There we...

On our May 21 cruise  one of the destinations (if the weather cooperates) will be Pabbay of the Barra Isles. I've only been to Pabbay o...

I love walking across island terrain where the ground is covered by short grass, and slopes gradually to an azure sea. Even better is if th...

As I was wandering around Pabbay I came across this old wooden cart half buried in the turf above the shore. Its two iron wheels were ruste...

Here are two views of Taigh nam Bochdan, the House of Spectres, on the isle of Pabbay (near Barra). The first is looking down from the high...