The Skipper (aka Himself) made it a priority to get to Askernish (South Uist) to visit and play a round. We each slept with our clubs on board Chardonnay and I must say that I am very sorry not to have a photo of the rubber dinghy loaded up with us and the clubs and the shoes ... Loading up at the mooring and unloading at the fishing boat slip way ... use your imagination!
Sheep have priority:
We had a super day. The machair (extremely fertile and low lying plains) was in full bloom. Note to self: next time bring orange balls as the other colours disappear!
The ball was there ... somewhere ... and still is:
The 20 mile long beach is just steps away:
This hole is called 'Barra View'. Barra is visible in the distance on the right:
Very pretty forward tees:
No lie (pun intended). We did NOT place the ball there. It went of its own accord. Seriously mutant rabbits here and Rule 25 - 1 was applied:
We were accompanied throughout our round by corncrakes and skylarks ... nearly made us crazy.
Corncrakes are very shy and one is very lucky to see one. We didn't see any but we sure did hear them. They sound like this (and they go on and on): http://www.corncrake.net/sounds/mnacht.wav
The skylark hovers way up above and sings away:
It was a great day all round.
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