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🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Mark Stephen visits the Island of Lewis with the author, Peter May.
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0:34.2 | Salons. Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast. I'm Mark Stephen. |
0:40.4 | The island of Lewis on the west coast of Scotland is probably the Gallic-speaking heartland of the nation. |
0:47.8 | It's fairly flat, it's very exposed to the Atlantic. There's a witchiness about it, a real beauty, and people have rhapsodised about it for years, |
0:58.8 | but few people have brought it more to life than the author Peter May with his Lewis trilogy. |
1:04.8 | I spoke to him a couple of years ago. |
1:16.6 | This is rather bizarre because I'm actually looking at what this describes. There the road ended and the cliffs formed a natural harbour at the northwest end of half a mile of empty golden beach. |
1:24.6 | Man had enhanced nature by building a breakwater and a harbour wall. |
1:29.3 | At one time trawlers and fishing boats had plied their trade in and out of the harbour, |
1:34.3 | but nature had struck back, smashing down the breakwater at one end, |
1:37.3 | where great chunks of semi-submerged rock and concrete had fought and failed to stand firm |
1:43.3 | against the irresistible assault of the sea. |
1:46.5 | The harbour was all but deserted now, |
1:48.8 | used as a haven only by small fishing boats, |
1:51.7 | crabbers and dinghies. |
1:54.3 | And there they are. |
2:00.3 | Music The boat shed was much as Finn remembered it, green corrugated iron roof, white painted walls. |
2:23.3 | The right-hand side of it was open and exposed to the elements. |
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