We think its the Garden Tiger Moth, which is increasingly endangered, but clearly likes it here on the machair (and our kettle)
In the morning we carried the kayak over the headland to launch at a quieter beach
Tuesday 2 June 2015
Eilean Melasta
With a promising (ie force 3-4) forecast we set out from the end of the road at Melasta to kayak down to Crabhadail, where Tom camped in 1965 with the Schools Hebridean Society, and acquired his love of wild camping in Scotland.
We stopped for lunch on the nominally swell-sheltered East facing beach of Eilean Melasta .. then found the swell was a bit too tricky for us to feel confident about getting off again. We decided to enjoy the island and spend the night there.
The Machair (the special sandy grassland of Western coasts) on Eilean Melasta was covered with masses of spectacular hairy caterpillars.
We think its the Garden Tiger Moth, which is increasingly endangered, but clearly likes it here on the machair (and our kettle)
In the morning we carried the kayak over the headland to launch at a quieter beach
We think its the Garden Tiger Moth, which is increasingly endangered, but clearly likes it here on the machair (and our kettle)
In the morning we carried the kayak over the headland to launch at a quieter beach
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