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Meall Mòr

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Meall Mòr

View south on take off from Barra Airport Spent a lot of time with Anquet Maps 'Virtual Landscape' to check where we were when this was taken! The island immediately below is Garbh Lingeigh with Fuidheigh immediately behind it and to the left. Unusually, take off was west to east from this amazing beach runway.
View south on take off from Barra Airport Credit: Gordon Brown

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View south on take off from Barra Airport Spent a lot of time with Anquet Maps 'Virtual Landscape' to check where we were when this was taken! The island immediately below is Garbh Lingeigh with Fuidheigh immediately behind it and to the left. Unusually, take off was west to east from this amazing beach runway.
View south on take off from Barra Airport
Spent a lot of time with Anquet Maps 'Virtual Landscape' to check where we were when this was taken! The island immediately below is Garbh Lingeigh with Fuidheigh immediately behind it and to the left. Unusually, take off was west to east from this amazing beach runway.
Setting up camp near Gighay Very remote, between Gighay and Hellisay. Manx Shearwaters came home to roost in the night. Very spooky sound!
Setting up camp near Gighay
Very remote, between Gighay and Hellisay. Manx Shearwaters came home to roost in the night. Very spooky sound!
Hintinish Bay, Hellisay The clear waters of Hintinish Bay, enclosed within the narrow sound between Hellisay and Gighay, provide perfect shelter for a small boat.
Hintinish Bay, Hellisay
The clear waters of Hintinish Bay, enclosed within the narrow sound between Hellisay and Gighay, provide perfect shelter for a small boat.
Sound of Gighay A secluded sound between the remote Hebridean islands of Hellisay and Gighay. Narrow, rock-bound entrances at both ends open into a sheltered lagoon. Martin Lawrence (in The Yachtsman's Pilot to the Western Isles) says that the flood tide either enters the sound from both ends, or it runs right through from SE to NW, or it does both, the former at springs and the latter at neaps. He also says that both entrances are choked with rocks, and, "Each visiting yacht seems to find more rocks, or perhaps the same rocks in different positions." The view is of the NW entrance, from Hellisay.
Sound of Gighay
A secluded sound between the remote Hebridean islands of Hellisay and Gighay. Narrow, rock-bound entrances at both ends open into a sheltered lagoon. Martin Lawrence (in The Yachtsman's Pilot to the Western Isles) says that the flood tide either enters the sound from both ends, or it runs right through from SE to NW, or it does both, the former at springs and the latter at neaps. He also says that both entrances are choked with rocks, and, "Each visiting yacht seems to find more rocks, or perhaps the same rocks in different positions." The view is of the NW entrance, from Hellisay.
Natural sheltered harbour This perfectly sheltered anchorage provided a perfect situation with no light pollution to observe the long-awaited gathering of the five naked-eye planets on the nights of May 4-5-6 in the western evening sky. In a single glance you could see all five planets, a feat not possible again for decades.
Natural sheltered harbour
This perfectly sheltered anchorage provided a perfect situation with no light pollution to observe the long-awaited gathering of the five naked-eye planets on the nights of May 4-5-6 in the western evening sky. In a single glance you could see all five planets, a feat not possible again for decades.
Mary Doune enters anchorage Not much room for manoeuvre here.
Mary Doune enters anchorage
Not much room for manoeuvre here.
A view into the natural harbour from Gighay/Gioghaigh
A view into the natural harbour from Gighay/Gioghaigh
Kayaking along the coast of Hellisay/Theiliseigh Taken during a kayak journey from Barra to Eriskay and back.
Kayaking along the coast of Hellisay/Theiliseigh
Taken during a kayak journey from Barra to Eriskay and back.
Beinn a' Chàrnain on Hellisay/Theiliseigh
Beinn a' Chàrnain on Hellisay/Theiliseigh
Looking up at Mullach a' Chàrnain on Hellisay/Theiliseigh
Looking up at Mullach a' Chàrnain on Hellisay/Theiliseigh
Along the coast of Gighay/Gioghaigh
Along the coast of Gighay/Gioghaigh
Càrais, Hellisay Looking down from Meall Meadhonach.
Càrais, Hellisay
Looking down from Meall Meadhonach.
Blue Lagoon, Hellisay Looking from Meall Meadhonach towards Gighay.
Blue Lagoon, Hellisay
Looking from Meall Meadhonach towards Gighay.
Blue Lagoon, Hellisay Looking from Meall Meadhonach towards Gighay.
Blue Lagoon, Hellisay
Looking from Meall Meadhonach towards Gighay.
South coast of Hellisay Looking down from Meall Meadhonach.
South coast of Hellisay
Looking down from Meall Meadhonach.
Rubh' a' Chaolais Southern coast of Flodaigh.
Rubh' a' Chaolais
Southern coast of Flodaigh.
Bò Bheanachan North-east side of Flodaigh. The island is uninhabited but grazed by sheep.
Bò Bheanachan
North-east side of Flodaigh. The island is uninhabited but grazed by sheep.
Coast of Flodaigh Taken on a Clearwater Paddling sea kayaking trip <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://www.clearwaterpaddling.com/index.asp" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://www.clearwaterpaddling.com/index.asp">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span>
Coast of Flodaigh
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Meall Mòr is located at Grid Ref: NF7603 (Lat: 57.009262, Lng: -7.3367113)

Unitary Authority: Na h-Eileanan an Iar

Police Authority: Highlands and Islands

What 3 Words

///mirroring.trucks.scorching. Near CastleBay, Na h-Eileanan Siar

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Càrais Carrish Meall Mòr Rubha na h-Uamh Bàgh Hintis Eilean na Cartach

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Hellisay
Hellisay

Hellisay (Scottish Gaelic: Theiliseigh) is a currently uninhabited island and is one of ten islands in the Sound of Barra, a Site of Community Importance...

Gighay
Gighay

Gighay (Scottish Gaelic Gioghaigh) an uninhabited island off the northeast coast of Barra. It is one of ten islands in the Sound of Barra, a Site of Community...

Flodday (Sound of Barra)
Flodday (Sound of Barra)

Flodday or Flodaigh (Scottish Gaelic), is a currently uninhabited island that lies to the north east of Barra and is one of ten islands in the Sound of...

Fuiay
Fuiay

Fuiay (Scottish Gaelic: Fùidheigh) is an island in Scotland. It is one of ten islands in the Sound of Barra, a Site of Community Importance for conservation...

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Càrais
Place: locality
Lat/Long: 57.0123453/-7.3316946
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Bàgh Hintis
Natural: bay
Lat/Long: 57.0111957/-7.3355741
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Meall Mòr
Ele: 70
Natural: peak
Lat/Long: 57.0080084/-7.334527
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