Isle of Lewis in August - Part II

Our trip to Harris was a great success.  Jenny and I stopped off at Skoon Art Cafe for an excellent coffee - best on Harris and topped the best from last year on Lewis (Callanish Visitor centre).  Shortbread was good too.  Bought a mini picture of the machair to add to my collection of Andrew's paintings.

Tree growing out of blackhouse wall at Lickisto

Views from Blackhouse

Panorama of lazy beds with Jenny's car

Luskentyre beach

View of Taransay from Luskentyre

Had a lovely lunch at Temple cafe.  This is a view from our table

A big stopper view of Taransay from Luskentyre

View from the dunes

Jenny running down the dunes

Dune grass

The salmon run was a charity cycle ride from Uists and around Lewis

Had a coffee at Callanish and went off to photograph the stones again.  I haven't included them here as they feature so much in past posts.  Noticed that the Blackhouse Tearooms was for sale.  This has been empty for 10 years.  An open door just had to be entered and photographs taken.

For sale for £100,000 - oh for the money to buy it and do it up!

Drove to Blue Pig to check out their gift items and then finally managed to see Norman in Carloway.  Norman gave me the full talk on weaving in Lewis.  Although the tweed is called Harris tweed - 95% of the weavers are on Lewis.  If you are on the island, pop in and see Norman and buy some tweed from him.

The cat at The Blue Pig - I think she is called Freya

outside The Blue Pig

Knitted blue pig by Jenny Morrison and can be seen at The Blue Pig

Norman explaining the start of the weaving process

Norman at one of the last old weaving machines.  Parts have to be taken from scrapped machines.

A few of Norman's own designs

Meg - one of the many sheep dogs who come to visit

In the evening we had a meal at Auberge.  Beforehand, Murdo took as for a drive to the end of the road and we stopped off at Mangersta to see the grave of Dr Linda Norgrove - see below.

On Saturday we said farewell to Angus, Tracy, Jonathan and Charlotte from the ferry terminal - queue more photos.  Then Jenny and I went to Ness to do the walk to the Temple at the old villages of Skigersta and Filiscleitir.

Hebridean Princess

Silk hangings featuring Lewis chessman at Stornaway Ferry Terminal

Piper at wedding nearby

Jonathan, Angus and Murdo

Jenny and Charlie

On the way to the walk

View of the manse in the distance

Never knew there were dragons on Lewis

The Temple

From the doorway

From the window

View from the Temple

A lovely last walk with Jenny, Murdo and dogs to Sandig, Lewis, another deserted village.

Jenny had me knitting for a craft fair taking place when I had gone.  The teddies are addictive to knit.  This one was my fourth.

Mickey

Jenny and lazy beds

One of two houses at Sandig

grass covered rope

Jenny and Murdo

unidentified little brown bird

Neve

Jenny taking a chessman shot

lichen

An introduced species to the island

Flew off the island on Monday.  Still more places to see and photograph on Lewis and Harris.  Hope to return next year for a longer visit to the Outer Hebrides - traveling through all the islands.