Benbecula, South Uist and Eriskay
Three more lovely and historic isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland
The following blog post is based on a chapter in my new book, The Scottish Isles: Part 2: Skye and the Outer Hebrides. The first volume, The Scottish Isles: Part 1: Shetlands, Orkneys and Hebrides is currently on sale at a reduced price, US $2.99 for the Kindle and US $9.99 for the paperback. The two front covers follow, after which the post begins.
FROM North Uist, I crossed over to the island of Benbecula. Meaning ‘mountain of the ford’ in Scots Gaelic, Benbecula refers to the way that the island, with one sizable hill upon it, sits between North Uist and South Uist.
Tidal sands known as the North Ford and the South Ford lay between the three islands. The South Ford was about 650 metres wide across open sands and the North Ford was several kilometres wide, but with a small island called Grimsay and many smaller islets along the way in case you got caught by the tide.
