Start of a new week

I got up early this morning to visit the hen house to find an egg for breakfast, they were still warm.

Found Val in the kitchen at 7am baking cheese scones and gluten free (what is that?) bread.

I saw Zehra off this morning and now Ewan moves into Pier Cottage.

Last night Ewan sat on the small hill by Pier Cottage playing his guitar as the sun went down, it was a magical moment.

Back to this morning, as we had an introductory group meditation for the start of a new week in The Sanctuary overlooking the bay. My "angel card" this week is "adventure".

Off for a walk, stopping off at the quarry, blacksmith's dilapidated cottage and on to the lighthouse.

Roger this week's "vocaliser" started to tell us some of the stories about the island and it's features I missed by arriving a day later last week.

On to the Wishing Stone where we sat and chatted for a while.

Next stop were the seals we tried to creep up to before some slipped into the water disturbed by our presence.

Listened to the seals being quite noisy before we all got used to each other being there, and we ate a packed lunch Val made for us this morning.

Balfour Bay to enjoy a spectacularly beautiful sandy beach with clear water and nobody else in sight.

It features heavily in Robert Louis Stevenson book if you want to look it up, as he was a visitor here too.

Orlando and Paul, the other one, went fishing last night (in this daylight) and caught 18 mackerel, and are in the kitchen today prepping them for dinner tonight.

Can't wait, yet again, for dinner on Erraid, absolutely zero food miles in action and it doesn't taste better than this!

Thursday dawn water run

It's a new day on Erraid, June already, after spending last of the night watching Clint Eastwood's Changeling, shocked to know it was a true story.

Communal discussion has turned to the brownish peat originating tap water, more on that later, but it's academic for me as the water supply to Pier Cottage appears to have dried up.

Instead it's up early to collect some fresh water from an island punp to be found just past that fat rooster. The builder's tea tastes and looks just fine whilst the sawdust run-rate used remains constant.

Here is the famous Wishing Stone of Erraid near the summit of Cnoc Mor,  I visited it a couple of days ago in the sunshine, leaving a secret wish behind.