SCALPAY - HEBRIDES - SCALPAY -EILEAN GLAS LIGHTHOUSE & BOTHY
Name derives from "ship island" from the Norse. OR Skalprøy, meaning "scallop island"
Take a walk round Scalpay with us as we explore round this little must stop. Now the island itself has no shop and not much going on on it but the walking is good very beautiful and the locals very nice. We anchored in the south anchorage in about 10 meters anchor caught first time with good holding pretty nice views to. There is a marina on the north side I think run by locals from Harris. If you do get out here make sure you get walking to the lighthouse it’s beautiful and has a bit of history it’s name is in the video here. . We ended up going here kind of by accident ..here is how that happened. We were waiting to go out to the west of the outer Hebrides and on to start kilda but the weather wasn’t going to let us for weeks...(shame) so we headed up to go to north Harris but the place was closed for dredging so were would we go before this blow came...yes you guessed it SCALPAY any ways I hope you enjoy the video⛵️
Take a walk round Scalpay with us as we explore round this little must stop. Now the island itself has no shop and not much going on on it but the walking is good very beautiful and the locals very nice. We anchored in the south anchorage in about 10 meters anchor caught first time with good holding pretty nice views to. There is a marina on the north side I think run by locals from Harris. If you do get out here make sure you get walking to the lighthouse it’s beautiful and has a bit of history it’s name is in the video here. . We ended up going here kind of by accident ..here is how that happened. We were waiting to go out to the west of the outer Hebrides and on to start kilda but the weather wasn’t going to let us for weeks...(shame) so we headed up to go to north Harris but the place was closed for dredging so were would we go before this blow came...yes you guessed it SCALPAY any ways I hope you enjoy the video⛵️
Scalpay is around 4 kilometres (2 1⁄2 miles) long and rises to a height of 104 metres (341 feet) at Beinn Scorabhaig. The area of Scalpay is 653 hectares (2 1⁄2 sq mi). The main settlement on the island is at the north, near the bridge, clustered around An Acairseid a Tuath (North Harbour).
The island is peppered with small lochans. The largest of these is Loch an Duin (Loch of the Fort) which has a tiny island in it, with the remains of the fort still visible. Eilean Glas, a tiny peninsula on Scalpay's eastern shore, is home to the first lighthouse to be built in the Outer Hebrides.
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