Unhurried Uig

Thursday 16 October: As we drove down into Uig, the ferry was just departing with the 14.10 sailing to Lochmaddy – the puff of exhaust smoke from its funnel told the story. Soon after arrival from Tarbert some 50 minutes earlier, there would have been a flurry of activity as numerous cars, camper vans, lorries and other vehicles drove away, and the pier would then have been busy as the ferry loaded for its next crossing. Now it’s quiet in Uig, until the ferry returns in around 4 hours. The weather’s quiet too. It’s a small-scale shopping trip, but while we’re down here, we may as well enjoy a leg-stretch.