31 May Tiree (Part 2)

I cycled to Hynish, at the west end of Tiree, which I thought, with my love for industrial archaeology, was brilliant.

Skerryvore lighthouse (built by Alan Stevenson) is 11 miles from Tiree.  To build it (and to service it) he built a harbour but the only place he could build the harbour was liable to silt up so he built a flushing system to flush the silt out.  This was done circa 1844 and is still all there, including the flushing system but am not sure if it still works.  There is also all the necessary accommodation including stables, walled gardens, and semaphore/signal station.  And the lighthouse was just about visible:

Just to the left behind the ship

The Harbour

From the end of the pier

The inner harbour

The reservoir

The leat

Workshops and offices

Cottages and signal tower

Beautiful shores

Eider ducks and chick

A beach with cowrie shells

 

Up one of the hills, which also happens to be a broch but the stones have been used to build a boundary wall

 

Airport more sophisticated than Coll’s

Back at the pier (sans CalMac ferry)

This is an art installation at the pier (aka shelter?)

Outside the Kirk for the night