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In spite of it being a good day, and many explorers saying
they were intending to come, we only got two members for this
expedition, Andreas and David John, with Sharon to help -
maybe they were all busy making rafts for the race on the
following day.
We started from the church and walked down the old road to
Shielbridge, looking at the eskers and the old border of the
ice sheet. Then we had a look at the old shed at Shielbridge,
which could have been made out of an old church.
We walked quickly past the site of the old MacBrayne's hotel
and over the old bridge where we stopped to look at the site
of Katie MacNeil's accident.
Then we crossed to Blain where we looked at the smiddy and
the site of the old house before crossing to the pit using
the ancient route past the pines - there was a huge pinecone
there. We looked at the sand martins in the pit and in the
new cutting at Iain MacColl's and also at the site of the
old house belonging to the Corbett family.
Finally we reached the field behind the boathouse where we
stopped for a break while looking at the route of the old
road from 'Peat Corner' laid out by Hope Scott. The expedition
finally examined the old boathouse before returning to the
centre to draw pictures.
The Pictures
Andreas drew a view from the field showing the Sithean
in the background, complete with a wee winged person, and
an impression of the borders of the unfinished road. David
John made one of his stark drawings of the boathouse showing
the rails and the winch at the top.
John Dye
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