A voyage to the Shiants
In late June the 34ft steel sailing boat Aquila, owned and captained by Robert Kincaid of Oban Sea School and with a crew of five, including your intrepid editor, left Oban and headed up the Sound of Mull.
Two nights later we dropped anchor in the little bay of Hallaig on Raasay island, made famous by the late Sorley MacLean of Raasay, whose poem, “Hallaig” tells the story of the cleared settlement there, and is inscribed on a cairn above the bay:
