A quieter day today..while one friend had a physio appointment I walked up a hill with the other...
The circle of stones has the list of those killed in the first world war..the last four or five are those from the second..after the clearances and emigration then the first world war there weren't so many left to die in the second.....
Brunch in the Hub Café - bike shop then out to see St. Columba's church just past the end of the airport runway on the way to Point.
First the memorial to the crofters here who battled to keep their land
And a greeting in passing from a Cookies and Cream coloured cat!
A little way back towards Stornoway and to the coast...where a returning troopship foundered on a rock just yards from home..
The Iolaire ("eagle" in Gàidhlig)...
The nearest object stands on the rock..the farther is a buoy
And as we watched the ferry sailed in.
So close..yet so far.
The men drowned are not on the war memorials. They are rarely spoken of.
This memorial was only added on the centennial in 2019.
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The sea has claimed so many souls over the centuries.
That is sad they get no recognition. Canada would have considered them War Dead and they would be on Cenotaphs and Memorials.
I was fretting about that ferry in the fog after reading of the ship that foundered. That cat is delicious.
It’s a dangerous place the sea. Even when we used to go out we always kept an eye on the weather. So many memorials. So many young lives lost to war.
Rather sad history today...so many deaths, the clearances, the ruined church...just sad. But history of most places is filled with the same. The bleak weather really suited the mood of your post, gz.
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