Day 15 Barra - Vatersay Bay

We awoke and the music was still playing… but there were fewer than twenty die-hards still letting their hair down. The forecast for today was glorious and so we resolved to have a beach day and go nowhere.

We had breakfast and read books in the cockpit. The party stopped and then the clean up began with diggers and trucks removing all the coals, tables and anything else for that matter. When they had finished you could not tell that anything had taken place the day before.

At about lunchtime we launched the dinghy and pulled it up the beach a bit, the tide was going out so we could just leave it where we landed really.

At one end of the beach was a community hall and it operated as a part-time cafe manned by local volunteers, all of them septuagenarians or more! We ordered two toasties and shared a drink.

We spent the rest of the afternoon on the beach until we both got fed up with the rising wind which had started blowing sand in our faces. We went back tot he boat and did some more reading and the wind continued to rise. We looked at each other and decided to go back to the marina, we didn't want to as we both saw it as a waste of money, but it was a really good call for shortly after we left the wind started blowing at 28knts and did so fo the rest of the evening. We would have been safe if we had stayed but it would have been uncomfortable so we are not complaining.