Private inlets bookended by rough limestone headlands and edged by round-leafed cashew trees or palms are hidden behind unmarked turnoffs. |
The A888 is a narrow ribbon of tarmac that curls and loops around the inlets and headlands of the Hebridean island of Barra. |
It has 8,000 kilometres of shores going from sand dunes to volcanic headlands. |
There have also been some good jewfish and tailor taken from the headlands and breakwalls. |
I persuaded the children to join me in a walk threading between heather, sea pinks and campion along a volley of headlands. |
With neaping tides this weekend the best shot to target a barra will be around the rocky headlands. |