Inhabited, west coast Scottish islands - The Outer Hebrides - Vatersay
Having been forced to leave my final few inhabited, inner and coastal Islands until another year (hopefully 2026), I decided to skip ahead and start to cover the Outer Hebrides (otherwise known as The Long Isle). As with the inner Islands, I'm going to travel from South to North but, since it is a long string of islands, forget about east and west (although some are further west than others due to the line The Long Isle lies along). I had also originally thought to lump islands of simiular appearance, and located next to each other, into single posts but I’ve now decided against that as the post for the small island of Vatersay was extensive enough to be given it’s own write up (when I had originally intended to deal with it along with Barra and Eriskay). Having said that, there are some very small islands close to either South or North Uist and Benbecula, which I will include with it’s adjascient large island. In truth, some of those islands are so small that you might n...