Rain forest

Monday 12 February: no, it’s not a forest – just a strip of woodland by the shore of Uig bay. ‘Just’ is, however, understatement. It’s a tiny fragment of temperate rain forest. Look at it! Mosses and lichen everywhere in profusion. The liverwort is amazing – great green cabbage-like growths, while the extensive moss, covering everything that hasn’t moved for a while, is – green! The threatened rain is now falling heavily – we’ll scuttle back along along the path before we’re soaked