The forecast was not looking promising, the wind was due to increase 5-6 from the NE, imminently. We launched from the Cuma at 6pm...
...and made for the Dun Gap in beautiful evening sunshine.
The wind and the tide were whistling through the Dun Gap as I looked back past Giasgeir, in mid channel, to Oisebhal (293m) on Hirta.
Mostly it was sheltered in the lee of Dun but there were some vicious