Eriskay

Eriskay from Poll a Charra Inn, at the south western tip of South Uist. Taken about 8pm after dinner at the inn. We stayed out to try and photograph the sunset but around 10pm as we returned from Eriskay, thick cloud descended. No sunset photography that night.
Here you see the causeway opened in 2001, the last link built on the spinal road. So the ferry to Barra now goes from here, not Lochboisedale in South Uist. It departs from the other side of the island, next to the beach where Charles Edward Stuart first landed in Scotland in 1745.

In these waters in 1941 the S S Politician hit the rocks and sank with 22,000 cases of whisky bound for the U.S.A. on board. Islanders were estimated to have liberated about 2,000 cases. The Excise took a dim view and some local men were imprisoned as a result. Compton Mackenzie's book Whisky Galore, and the Ealing Studio film are based on these events. I had my only dram of the holiday at the bar on Eriskay where two bottles from the wreck are in display.