We also did a fair bit of maintenance work, such as oil and filter changes. We had to start the engine for an hour or so every second day to charge our batteries, as they did not have power on the docks. We left in the late afternoon of July 10 to anchor at Loch Mariveg, a 9 mile motor-sail during which we saw our first puffins . We had the loch to ourselves, safely at anchor in fifteen feet of water at low tide, off an abandoned stone farmhouse that I explored the next day. Many of the Hebrideans were shipped to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, a similar harsh rocky landscape.
Hebridean music uses the fiddle, accordion, and flute more than the bagpipe.
More about our sail down the east coast of this Western Isle in my next log.