New Year's Day in North Tolsta

 The sun greeted us on this first morning of 2014

 so we celebrated by going for a drive, to go for walk...

 to a bridge at the head of Seaforth loch, one of the many places that Charles Edward Stuart is reputed to have landed...but quite a feasible location, miles from anywhere even now...

 fresh peat cuttings, by the old road that runs by the loch

 there has been some heavy rain recently, and one stream had torn a scar right down the slope and by-passed the road bridge

 mid-day sun.....

 We  found a group of at least a dozen "black houses" by a larger burn, with a large fank (group of sheep pens that look like a group of fences)

 and a chassis with a diff....?????

 and a lobster pen.....

 and most surprisingly, a Herdwick sheep !!!

 A small fank

 Then we cheated and drove to where Mr C.E.S. walked....just South of Stornoway...

 and saw a rock garden..

 and in the evening left The Pirate talking in the kitchen while three of us went visiting.....!!